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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...modern marine engineering. Built in 1976 by the Compagnie Française d'Entreprises Métalliques, based in Paris, the pentagonal 10,105-ton platform was leased and operated by Phillips Petroleum Co., the major contractor for oil and natural gas prospecting in the rich Edda field. For the rotating crews that lived there for two weeks at a time, it was intended to be a floating city-a sort of workingman's Titanic. And like the Titanic, the Alexander Kielland was theoretically invulnerable. Says Jakob Eri, director of a Norwegian firm specializing in inspecting ships...
...Wilson decided that only quick and painful surgery would save the company. He slashed the number of Seattle-area employees from 105,000 to a low of 38,000, shuffled 1,800 members of the top-heavy corporate staff of 2,000 out to field offices and dispersed decision-making power to the company's separate divisions...
Something tells Earl not to give money and car to a total stranger, but "to have an outright enemy as one's nearest neighbor, when one lived at the termination of a dead-end road, with only a wooded hollow beyond, a weed-field across the street, was unthinkable." What follows during the next 24 hours suggests that Earl is right to worry. Bad enough that Ramona accuses him of trying to rape her and that Harry claims to be the victim of his homosexual advances; worse that Enid placidly believes both charges. Keese keeps throwing his new neighbors...
...Crimson laxwomen gained their first Ivy League victory of the season at Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon, when tight defense and a team-oriented offense propelled them to an 11-3 romp over Princeton...
Harvard goalie Boutillier did not see much action on her end of the field, but the surprising freshman was up to the task as she made some sensational stops on Princeton threats. Boutillier picked off six enemy bullets after her shaky start in the early going...