Word: tankerous
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...dimensions of the catastrophe in Prince William Sound came into focus, people had little trouble deciding where their sympathies lay: with the seabirds and otters suffering and dying in the oil-laden waters, not with the hard-drinking skipper who was in his cabin doing paperwork when his tanker plowed into Bligh Reef...
...much for me to coordinate from New York. But let me just tell you something. There were a lot of things lying out there before the Exxon Valdez hit the rocks, from the great concern over the hole in the ozone to the greenhouse effect and acid rain. This tanker went on the rocks, and visually it was perfect for TV and not too bad for pictures of oily birds in the printed media. How would those environmentalists ever let that go? If I just went up there and said I was sorry? I went on TV and said...
...itself "disappointed" at the indictments and vowed to fight them in court. The prosecution may yet result in a settlement. But no matter what happens, the case will further complicate a gargantuan legal wrangle that already involves more than 150 civil complaints as well as the separate prosecution of tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood by the state of Alaska...
...then Van de Kamp's rivals had issued their own lamentations about the Feb. 7 accident aboard a British Petroleum tanker that dumped 349,000 gal. of crude oil into an area once known as Surf City, U.S.A. Complained the other Democratic candidate for Governor, former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein: "California has ignored the lessons of Alaska." She reiterated / her proposal to create a new department of ocean resources to protect the sea, bays and estuaries. For his part, Republican candidate Pete Wilson reminded a partisan crowd in Los Angeles, "As your U.S. Senator, I have stood...
...past three weeks Hazelwood has been on trial for his role in the grounding of the tanker last March. If convicted of criminal mischief and recklessly creating a risk of property damage, he faces seven years in prison and $61,000 in fines...