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...commonly known as shale. Colony's 8,800 acres alone are estimated to contain at least 500 million bbl. of oil, a month-long supply for the entire U.S. at the current levels of consumption. The project's facilities include a huge retort for cooking a compound called kerogen, contained in shale, and extracting oil from it. Authorities projected that by the late 1980s, Colony could be producing about 45,000 bbl. of oil from shale daily...
...Coast does not have smog, or terrorists, or a socialist government. Real estate prices are not out of sight. So, as Maggy Scherer, a third-generation Californian, who with her husband Allan a few years ago sold their Beverly Hills home to move their 36 ponies to a rustic compound called La Chacra (latino Spanish for Little Farm), points out: "People are leaving France. They're leaving Italy. This is the place." Some concede that cosmopolitanism can go too far. When the band struck up the Star-Spangled Banner before a recent match, one woman demanded loudly: "Whose national...
DIRECT EXPERIENCE seems a more exciting source of images in the poems. When talking in her own voice. Harris tends to adopt interesting word combinations and compound words: "broomhandle-killing/that squirrel, carstunned and lost" she writes in "Manhattan As A Second Language." Asides in poetry are always dangerous, but when Harris writes in the first person she deals successfully with complex, convoluted images without losing the thread of her poetry. In "The Coddling Moth," she successfully creates a complicated, sensual comparison between a man and a moth, follows the moth into an apple grove, and leaps to agricultural science...
...complete was his transformation that he often manned a broom and swept out the large green-and-yellow revival tent in the church compound. Says Elder James DeGolyer: "It was very surprising to see him being such a serving kind of person, so willing to take guidance from people younger than himself...
...compound Saddam's problems, Iran has set unrealistic conditions for a ceasefire: Baghdad's unconditional withdrawal, payment of massive reparations and unqualified United Nations condemnation of Iraq as the aggressor. In effect, they are a demand for Saddam's political suicide. Efforts to mediate a cease-fire by the U.N. and a council of Islamic states in recent months have met with stubborn opposition in Iran...