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...oldest of the 123 fixed platforms in the British exploration area of the North Sea. Some experts cited equipment failure or metal fatigue as possible causes of the disaster. One widely held view was that there had been a leak in the natural-gas compression apparatus and that ignition had occurred through some kind of mechanical failure...
...stumped the country for eight months, he sounded the themes of pluralism and democracy, staking his reputation on a clean contest. While no candidate charged that Salinas condoned or abetted any of last week's purported irregularities, the allegations threw into question his ability to manage the P.R.I.'s apparatus...
When Helms ran for the Senate in 1972, he showed both his political savvy and his genius for raising money, pioneering direct-mail solicitations and founding a fund-raising apparatus that became one of the most formidable in the nation. In his 1984 bid for a third term, Helms spent $18 million on the most expensive Senate campaign ever, yet he defeated former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt by a scant...
...There is whiskey everywhere and not a drop to drink, only lemonade," Vellucci complained at the dinner, which was held within sight of the distillery's liquor-bottling apparatus...
...President Bok was wrong to expect that an internal review of the K-School could ever come up with any hard-hitting revelations or that the in-house reviewers would ever criticize their head dean. Despite making necessary reforms in the K-School fundraising apparatus, the report's sin of omission was that it went all the way to the front door and stopped...