Word: extractionation
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There are subtler problems: How does the Continent retain the glory of its history and avoid functioning merely as America's antique shop? How should Europe and the U.S. deal with each other? "Can we never extract this tapeworm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen?" asked Ralph Waldo...
As the rescue work continued, authorities ordered inquiries into the dams' collapse. The structures, built 24 years ago, had been sold by one mining company to another before being taken over by the present owner, the Prealpi Mineraria company of Bergamo, in 1980. The dam complex had consisted of two...
Something very unusual is happening to some Democrats and pro-choice abortion activists. They're getting smarter about their strategy. For years, they've harped on and on about a woman's right to choose, while failing to capture in any meaningful way the moral qualms so many of us...
Some view the extraction of personal assets as harsh in the case of WorldCom, where the directors were never found to have had knowledge of the company's crooked bookkeeping. (The directors owned so much WorldCom stock that they lost $250 million in its collapse.) In any event, the settlement...
The experience of BP suggests that Yukos' success with modern production techniques wasn't a fluke. After a year of operations, BP recently gave the first detailed report about its joint venture, called TNK BP. The surprises are all good: it has revised the level of reserves upward, production growth...