Word: slopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Steel, an affable Oxford-educated lawyer who is a tough negotiator, oversees a global empire. It embraces more than 650 production, refining and marketing subsidiaries in Europe, the Middle East and the U.S. (where BP has a production partnership with Standard Oil of Ohio for Alaska's North Slope oil and owns a quarter of Sohio...
...reason is that BP has huge interests in the world's two most exciting sources of new crude, Alaska and the North Sea. The BP-Sohio partnership has leased the largest chunk (its proven reserves: 5.1 billion bbl.) of Prudhoe Bay fields on Alaska's North Slope. According to an agreement between the two companies, as the flow of Alaskan oil increases so will BP's share in Sohio, rising from 26% now to 51%, probably some time next year. In the North Sea, BP's wells are expected to produce more than 650,000 bbl. a day by 1980?...
...other concessions in the Middle East and North Africa might be nationalized too?in fact several of them have been?BP's management foresightedly stepped up the search for oil in politically friendly (though environmentally frigid) climates, from the North Sea to the Labrador shores and Alaska's North Slope. The company began buying leases in Alaska as early as 1959, and brought in a North Sea gas field in 1965. BP's competent but colorless management has never been strong on marketing, preferring to sell crude in bulk. For all its 23,000 gas stations in Europe...
...current provisions allow a Harvard employee to use sick leave for pregnancy "just as if she had the flu or broke her leg on a ski slope," Loretta Stokes, personnel administrator, said yesterday...
Cooling Vapor. The Big Thompson River canyon had long been a very special place for Colorado residents and tourists alike. Situated on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, the canyon starts at about 7,500 ft. In a stretch of 25 miles, moving eastward from the Continental Divide, it descends some 2,000 ft. The walls of the canyon tower over what used to be a pleasant trout stream sparkling in the depths below. The canyon was not unspoiled, but neither was it ruined by money: the big, Aspen-style condominiums had been kept away, and most...