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For example: OGX was supposed to be the new Brazilian Petrobras, a state owned juggernaut that exists more as a policy instrument than as an oil and gas explorer.
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The Soviet Union has amply demonstrated just this year, its willingness to withhold oil and natural gas deliveries as an instrument of repression against Lithuania.
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The market cap of Petrobras has shed billions since she took over from what many Petrobras watchers say is nothing more than a policy instrument for Brasilia to funnel money to pet projects, rather than an actual oil company drilling below sand and rock salt in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Bond has gone into outer space, into volcanoes, spent a considerable amount of time undersea, and traversed the globe in virtually every kind of vehicle, from Venetian gondolas to motorcycles, Aston Martins to nuclear submarines, and has even been transported by oil pipelines and in one forgettable sequence, by using a string instrument as sled.
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