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Andrew Sneddon, a university lecturer on offshore engineering in Aberdeen, said, "we can only assume there was a leak of some sort. Basically, you are sitting on top of two highly flammable products--oil and gas. A leak or a spill is a potential hazard. It is extremely difficult to say what could have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oil Rig Explosion Kills as Many as 166 | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

...important that the city have good labor relationships at its largest employer, Harvard," Councillor David E. Sullivan said in March. "If we have labor strife at Harvard, it's going to spill over into the city of Cambridge--and that's not good for anyone...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Employer, Landlord and Taxpayer | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...roots go, is a presidential biographer's dream: tucked away in the mountains on the island of Lesbos, it is connected to the outside world by a dirt road that winds past valleys with olive trees and shepherds tending goats. Red-tiled roofs of the village houses spill down the mountainside. Everybody waves, smiles. Pelopi is as famous for its hospitality as for what the Greeks call sovaros, or seriousness. In American politics that may translate into dull and dogged, but on Lesbos, sovaros is high tribute indeed, and the people of Pelopi have it by the barrelful. For just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rooting for Michalis | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...scene brought to mind heartbreaking falls of American Olympic track stars: Jim Ryun tumbling at Munich, Mary Decker's astonished spill in Los Angeles. Jansen's mother Gerry, who had seen the race on TV, spoke for the millions who watched at home and in Calgary, where a cheering crowd fell into shocked silence: "I think we were all just kind of numb." Jansen's spills brought down much of the U.S. hope for a men's speed-skating medal. The team had gone to Calgary seeing a chance to replay some of 1980, when Eric Heiden took all five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: The Fall and Rise of Dan Jansen | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...during the short program, then skated away from the pack with a seemingly flawless performance in the longer freestyle event. The Soviets, who have claimed every Olympic pairs gold medal since 1964, also placed second and fourth. The top U.S. pair, Jill Watson and Peter Oppegard, survived an awkward spill early in the long program to capture the bronze and win America's first medal at Calgary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brian Boitano : This Soldier's No Toy | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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