Word: shell
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Since 1958, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria has conducted extensive oil drilling operations that have yielded 900 million barrels of crude oil from the land in which they live, known as Ogoniland. The World Bank reports that Nigeria suffers about 300 major oil spills a year, turning the "breadbasket of Nigeria" into a blackened and largely infertile wasteland...
...Shell stands inextricably tied to these events. In a 1996 article in Tell magazine, Claude Ake alleges that the company "[bribed] officials to terrorize environmental and human rights activists in the oil-producing communities...
Violence by the government escalated after Shell expressed concern over its stability. A memo from the Rivers State Internal Security Task Force, dated May 12, 1994, states: "Shell operations [are] still impossible unless ruthless military operations are undertaken." The memo also recommended the "wasting" of Ogoni leaders...
...women's regatta, the field of 16 teams at Old Dominion was quite deep. Harvard had qualified by winning both the Danmark Regatta at the beginning of the season and the Shell Trophy two weeks...
Next season's big swimsuit, if such a thing is possible, is the tankini, a tank top over bikini pants. The trikini, a name from the '70s, has been revived for a bikini with a shell top. But other daring new shapes from the fashion runways have yet to be named. So, well, here...