Word: raisbeck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from 42 months to 22 months. Reacting to this steamroller, the states fought back with delaying tactics and a gusher of lawsuits. The result: a stalemate that held off some drilling and, not incidentally, hurt the Treasury (offshore leasing is its biggest source of revenue after taxes). As Elizabeth Raisbeck, an offshore oil specialist for the Friends of the Earth, saw it, "It was a leasing program out of control...