Word: tuktoyaktuk
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...Tapping Tuktoyaktuk. Exxon's world intelligence network and penchant for long-range planning have given it a head start in coping with the oil shortage. A decade ago, Monroe J. Rathbone, then chairman, began to get more and more reports that oil use was running increasingly ahead of new discoveries-and that Arabs would one day demand greater control over their resources. He ordered a stepped-up search for oil-even though the world then had a crude glut. In the past decade, Exxon's worldwide reserves have increased more than 9 billion bbl., or 21%. Crews are now searching...
...Canadian North, he was touring a familiar beat, where he is the most widely known reporter from "outside."' Within the last year Ogle has gone north of the Arctic Circle three times. This time he missed one of his planned stops, reported: "I had no luck getting into Tuktoyaktuk. I hired a seaplane, but storms blew ice into the bay so that no landing was possible. I finally landed ten miles out in the Arctic Ocean, then was unable to get ashore when the canoe coming out to get me was swamped in heavy seas." In his richly detailed...
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