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Computers time each shell from start to finish, while digital stop watches provide back-up times. Unofficial results are posted at the finish line shortly after each race, but times and standings are final only after protests have been decided and penalties assessed...
...marker on each shell indicates the position in which it started. A high-numbered shell passing a lower-numbered one is doing well, relatively speaking--it has picked up 10-15 seconds on the boat it passes...
...game between the two states had been escalating for a year. Ohio offered to buy up the site VW was considering--an old World War 2 tank factory--and lease it back to the company at low rates. Pennsylvania matched that bid for its New Stanton site--a factory shell built by Chrysler in the early '70s but never occupied--and threw in a 95 per cent cut in local taxes raised by offering to build rail and highway links to its site. Pennsylvania matched that, and as a clincher, persuaded two state pension funds...
...court dismissed the suit brought by MATEP--the shell corporation that owns the projected $110 million project. The suit, had it been successful, would have enjoined the DEQE from blocking construction of the plant...
Officials of the oil companies had worked out just such a solution. The French oil group TOTAL would supply Rhodesia through Mozambique, while BP and Shell would service TOTAL'S customers in South Africa. Lord Thomson Insists that he gave a "full account" of these arrangements in writing to Prime Minister Harold Wilson. The former P.M. now acknowledges a report from Thomson, but "not in the terms which have been suggested." Concludes the Bingham Report ambiguously: "The details of the TOTAL agreement were communicated to Her Majesty's government...