Word: tankerous
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...where the risks are lower. As a U.S. intelligence officer says, "One of the things that figures into their calculations are chances of success." So the terrorists are taking aim at accessible places --dance halls and hotels, shopping malls and tourist sites, the nightclub in Bali and the French tanker off Yemen--that are not and can never be very well protected. When the soft targets are linked to tourism in countries that count on it, the secondary economic impact can be almost worse...
...Tanker sails from Latvia, passing Spanish coast...
...Tanker breaks in two and sinks...
...Prestige was built in Japan in 1976 and was scheduled to be phased out in 2005. The tanker was carrying 84,849 tons of heavy fuel oil, bound for Singapore...
...would be more dangerous than just leaving it. Since the frigid water will thicken the already highly viscous fuel oil to the consistency of tar, it is unlikely to move anywhere soon. No plans have thus been announced--at least not yet--to try to recover the tanker's 18 million gallons of oil. If the contents leak to the surface, the spill will be twice the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster