The well shaft previously drilled vertically is redirected to become horizontal, with the drilling continuing until the shaft stretches out horizontally about half a mile to a mile.

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In 1992, a team bankrolled by Tennessee businessman Roy Shoffner and led by Bob Cardin excavated the plane by using hot water to melt a shaft into the ice, hoisting the plane out piece by piece.

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Without ever having made such a shaft before, the division tooled up and turned out 200 of them in four days.

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Officials said both efforts -- to drill a rescue shaft and widen a bore hole -- could be carried out concurrently.

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About two months ago Regal-Beloits Durst power transmission division in Beloit bailed out a longtime customer when the customers supplier couldnt deliver a certain axle shaft in time.

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There's a lot less sex in this one, and it's mostly in come-on lines that refer to Shaft's reputation as a lothario, rather than act it out reportedly a cause of anger between the black star and the director, John Singleton, on one side, and the white producer, Scott Rudin, on the other.

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But this mini-game embraces the Hitman ethos by giving you points for headshots, as well as taking out targets such that their bodies are disposed out of sight: off the edge of the building, into a pond, and even down an elevator shaft.

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