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...career in government. He thinks that while he might be a hero to some, he would be a rat or a snitcher in some eyes...
...Rat Hat. Oceaneering now has 951 employees, including 500 divers, working in 25 countries, mainly for the booming offshore oil and gas industry. The company's skills, which earned it $7 million in 1975 on total revenues of $52 million, include surveying drilling sites, building submarine pipelines, and maintaining platforms and subsurface wellheads-all hazardous chores in a hostile environment that is unforgiving of mistakes. Handelman and Oceaneering's co-founder and chairman, Mike Hughes, 37, met in 1964 when both were running tiny diving companies. The young entrepreneurs joined forces with a third small company, Canadian Diving...
Oceaneering has grown largely because of technological innovations that enable its divers to descend as far as 1,000 ft.-a depth that was rarely attempted a few years ago. It has developed, among other items, a complex fiber glass "rat hat" that warms the helium-oxygen mixture that divers must breathe at the very cold depths below 200 ft. to avoid the disabling nitrogen narcosis commonly known as "rapture of the deep." The $2,500 hat has been successfully tested at 1,600 ft.; Oceaneering refuses to sell it to anyone-even the U.S. Navy, which has chastised...
...imperious Rasta, Marley is deeply distrustful of politics. "Never make a politician grant you a favor, they will always want to control you forever," he sings in the song Revolution. The current hit single in Jamaica is his song about the island's upcoming parliamentary campaign. Its title: Rat Race...
...Unexpurgated Code carries this spoofing to near-fetish heights--for 289 pages, you're on the verge of uncontrollable laughter. Divided into six parts, this manual provides for all possible situations and exigencies of the social rat race: "Social Climbing," "Extinctions and Mortalities," "Vilenesses Various," "In Pursuit of Comfortable Habits," "Perils and Precautions," "Mischief and Memorabilia." The atmosphere is English manor house, gently decadent. Catalogued are innumerable pointers, all that the debonaire and naughty aristocrat must do to succeed is meticulously explained. There are rules and tips concerning accent improvement, farting in public, horsemanship, ass-kissing, being a big shot...