Word: shellings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majer, a sinister turn of the screw on a Carrollian child-world of Victorian dolls. Included are some landmarks in the medium: Wills O'Brien's Creation, a test film that sold his talents to the producers of King Kong, and Birth of the Robot, a 1936 advertisement for Shell Oil, with perhaps unintentional subtleties. Technical masterpieces, these films are never simplistic, but alternately funny and, oddly, frightening...
...firms holding the leases expressed dismay. Shell Oil charged that the delay "further jeopardizes the economic security of the nation." What happens next is unclear. The Interior Department can either appeal the ruling, possibly rewrite the impact statement, or call the deal off and return the money to the companies. Whatever it does, last week's decision is certain to delay production in the Atlantic for at least several years...
...that assumption. In an impressively documented book titled The Control of Oil, just published by Pantheon Books, Dr. John M. Blair argues that the real culprits are the major international oil companies, known familiarly as the Seven Sisters (Exxon, Mobil, Standard Oil Co. of California, Texaco, Gulf, Royal Dutch Shell, and British Petroleum). In Blair's view, the companies actually aided and abetted the OPEC increase, while pleading helplessness to their price-gouged public. "A form of bilateral symbiotic oligopoly" is the author's complicated if caustic term to describe the relationship between the oil "majors" and OPEC...
...glumly maintained radio silence since the news broke last week: the network agreed to shell out $2 million to settle a sex-discrimination suit brought by women employees...
...beer smuggling contest. The object of this is to hide as many beers as possible, successfully slipping through the Boston Garden security. Not only will you feel an incredible sense of accomplishment, but you'll also save a lot of money because you won't have to shell out a dollar for a Garden beer. The winning school has a huge psychological advantage before the game even starts...