Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fuel bills: drill your own gas well...
...innumerable bogs where the ground heaves during the short summer thaw; pressure tests of the Siberian soil are conducted at an underground Permafrost Institute at Yakutsk. Some 3,700 bridges and culverts must be built across rivers and streams. Subway experts from Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev have helped drill tunnels (one of them 9.5 miles long) through seven mountain ranges...
What Wootten strives to keep is a remarkable rapport with his players. When he began coaching in the '50s, the role model for his profession was a Marine drill instructor: shouting, short hair and slavish obedience. But Wootten encouraged his players to call him by his first name. Although he insists on tidy hair and coats and neckties on game day, Wootten allows the team to vote, by secret ballot, on training rules. His simple, if heretical explanation: "The team sets the rules because it's their team...
With regard to a specific definition of new gas, the so-called Christmas Bill, developed in the House, more successfully keeps the original purpose of incentives in mind. To receive the higher price, a gas company would have to drill a well on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) at least two-and-a-half miles away from, or 1000 feet deeper, than an existing well. The House energy conferees recommended an intermediate price increase for gas from wells drilled between one-and two-and-a-half miles from an existing well. But going on the assumption that gas producers will...
...John Greenwood of New York City invented the first dental drill, adapted from the spinning wheel and powered by a foot treadle...