The crude is squeezed out of huge chunks of strip-mined dirt, as opposed to drilled from pools of oil underground.

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As a result, executives mined foreign soil during the strike-induced hiatus for concepts that could both resonate with audiences and fill scheduling holes.

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Where the feed lies closest to the surface, as, for example, at the Suncor site, the bitumen is strip-mined and then separated.

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As for Schwarzenegger, he delivers his regulation one-liners not as if they just occurred to him but as if they had to be mined from far below and hauled up to the pithead.

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For the chapter "Guilty Pleasures of the Golden Arches: Mapping McDonald's in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel", they mined dozens of travel blogs written by Westerners who felt conflicted as they ate their unusual Maharaja Mac with their familiar French fries.

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