They much preferred a single-payer health system and with its attendant replacement of market forces with command and control directives issued from Washington, D.
In recent years, however, law firms have discovered that their clients have taken control of such decisions, and with great attendant cost savings and increases in efficiency.
Also in the quarter, the Hurricane Deep well was lost when its operator Chevron lost control of the well, and it had to be plugged and abandoned with attendant write-downs.