Word: valdez
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Testifying in an Anchorage courtroom as part of a civil lawsuit against the Exxon Corp., Joseph Hazelwood, captain of the Exxon Valdez, admitted he was less than candid with a Coast Guard investigator immediately after his ship ran aground in 1989 and spilled 11 million gal. of oil. Hazelwood testified that instead of just one beer, he had had three vodka drinks before leaving port, and that Exxon had known about his drinking problem...
...showing up in their stead: dozens and dozens of attorneys, paralegals, secretaries, biologists, economists and officials of the Exxon Corp. They are settling in for the summer to write the final chapter in the story of the nation's largest oil spill, which began in 1989 when the Exxon Valdez spilled more than 11 million gal. of inky black crude into the pristine Prince William Sound...
Winthrop House resident David A. Herne '93-'94 spent one summer working in a fish processing plant in Valdez, on the southern coast. According to Herne, these plants fall into two types. More regulated factories have stringent working hour limitations and offer better pay, but they are more difficult to come by. The summer positions in these plants are often filled by the preceding February...
Also, sophomore Ben Swartout in the 1000 freestyle (9:34.53); Carver in the 200 freestyle (1:42.52); freshman Dave Valdez in the 100 backstroke (53.59); freshman Scott Campea in the 100 breaststroke (58.34); Blaney in the 200 butterfly (1:54.46); Osterhus in the 50 freestyle (22.04); and the 200 medley relay team of Carver, freshman David Schwartz, junior Brian Livingston, and Heilman...
...service's computers routinely deleted the names of people who just went out for lunch. A code of secrecy meant that no directory was widely available to assist task-force members in contacting one another. Sessions were delayed or completely canceled for lack of space in meeting rooms. Robert Valdez, a UCLA public-health professor who eventually served as co-chairman of the benefits working group, arrived in Washington late one night only to be told he was presenting an overview at the first meeting the next morning. "Presenting?" asked Valdez. "Presenting what?" Recalls Harvard internist Arnold Epstein: "The whole...