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...that washes up daily. Says County Supervisor William Wallace: "If your dog got loose and went down to the beach, it would take you an hour to clean his feet." Still worse, the putrid smell of hydrogen sulfide often hangs over the area like vapor from a truckload of rotten eggs. The culprit is not a leaking oil well, but nature. The ocean floor is spilling large quantities of oil and natural gas through fissures that geoloists call seeps. Says Petroleum Geologist Robert Gaal of the California State lands commission: "There are thousands of them down there...
...plant opened in March, creating 27 new jobs for Austin citizens. Says Thomas Kucera, director of business development for Austin, already home to a Hormel meat-packing plant: "This isn't the kind of town that turns up its nose at a truckload of animal innards...
...seemed at tunes on the verge of panic. One evening, the manager of a West Beirut supermarket drove painstakingly along side streets through the no-man's land separating East and West Beirut. In East Beirut, where a sort of normality prevailed under Israeli occupation, he picked up a truckload of bottled water and returned with it after midnight to West Beirut. The next day he sold it at regular prices. As rumors of food shortages spread, people lined up for emergency supplies. Said the proprietor of one grocery store: "People are frightened. They are afraid that in case...
...private and community hospitals, efforts are under way to curb costs as much as possible. At the Nashville-based Hospital Corporation of America, which operates some 360 hospitals across the U.S., officials now cut costs by buying everything from adhesive bandages to building steel in train-and truckload bulk quantities. For H.C.A.'s average 200-bed hospital, that means annual savings of $400,000 to $500,000 in operating costs...
...plotters were well financed and well armed. One ringleader of the group, Abboud Zomor, an ex-army major who deserted, was said to have plotted several ways of killing Sadat. He considered shooting the President at his rest house in the Nile Delta. He also thought of exploding a truckload of butane gas on a Cairo street as Sadat drove...