Word: overeating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Company officers are extremely wary of divulging details of their business, and slips can prove costly. Example: much of Saudi Arabia's ability to restrain OPEC from driving up prices has depended on whether the Saudis can convincingly threaten to boost production enough to create periodic petroleum gluts. Yet...
The controversy surrounding Aramco underscores the internal tensions within the U.S. over the nation's alarming dependence on foreign crude. The oil industry must have billions of dollars to expand U.S. drilling, exploration and other energy-producing investments that are needed to escape OPEC's hold, and Aramco...
The Interior Department has required the companies to take costly environmental precautions in the area. Oilmen will mount their rigs on artificial islands built of gravel. Those located in water depths of more than 42 ft., the Government insists, must be left unused for two years, to see if they...
Apart from their frustration over the delays wrought by such environmental suits, U.S. oilmen feel that Washington is moving too slowly in leasing new offshore areas. The Interior Department recently stepped up its schedule of lease sales over the next five years, from 26 to 30, but that will do...
Now, nine months after the new employee-owned company, Republic Hose Manufacturing Corp., took over the one-story plant, productivity is up 40%, and the rate of rejected products has dropped from 8% to 1%. The firm, which today employs 130, estimates that for its first complete fiscal year it...