Word: tankerous
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...unload cargo from other planes. Government officials were demanding fees for allowing planes to land. American troops who did make it to Goma installed water- purification equipment that by Saturday was producing 120,000 gal. of water a day, but the only way to transport it was in tanker trucks...
Tapping the crude was one thing, getting it to market another. Without roads or navigable waterways, Chevron built a 165-mile pipeline that followed the Kikori River to the Gulf of Papua, where the first tanker filled...
...decision that could dig deep into the Exxon Corp.'s pockets, an Alaska federal jury concluded that the oil giant was reckless in permitting a captain with a history of drinking to command the Exxon Valdez, the oil tanker that ran aground five years ago in Prince William Sound and caused the nation's worst oil spill. The verdict against Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood enables local residents to seek $1.5 billion in compensation and $15 billion in punitive damages...
...inherent lack of autonomy in a military job also sets the stage for abuse. "It's all about control," says Cindy Zamora, the wife of an Army tanker. She now lives in a shelter for battered women in Killeen, Texas, just outside huge Fort Hood. She moved there after her husband bit her, beat her and threatened her with a knife. "There's a lot of women in here married to soldiers whose sergeants protect them if they're good soldiers," she says. "They can't control their superiors on the job, so they control us." Although her husband admitted...
...SPILL COULD BE A FLUKE. TWO SPILLS, and suspicion rises. Three in a row looks like a dangerous trend. So in the wake of the disastrous trio of tanker accidents off the coasts of Spain, Scotland and Sumatra, E.C. ministers convened an emergency meeting in Brussels. The officials proposed policies to ensure that companies spilling oil pay for the damage, and also agreed on the need to declare environmentally sensitive areas off limits to tankers...