"It was like you're in the bottom of a well, " Mr. Rivers says.
Here on the Earth's surface we live at the bottom of a gravity well.
Halliburton said that the report "accurately places responsibility on BP as the well owner for its operational decisions, " which included using a heavy fluid designed to keep gas from entering the well, called drilling mud, that was "too light" and probably mixed with the cement at the bottom of the well, and drilling too narrow a well.
The report follows a year-long review by the Conservatives prompted by a Unicef report which put the UK at the bottom of a table of 21 rich countries for the well-being of children.
For example: If a spider fell to the bottom of a 50-foot well, and each day climbed up 3 feet and slipped back 2, how many days would it take the spider to get out of the well? (Hint: The answer's not 50 days.) Google grabs its share of IQ by nabbing scientists and engineers from Stanford, MIT and Caltech.
And the law firm at the bottom of the complaint, Bartlit Beck , has a well-deserved reputation for top-gun litigation.
None of this would benefit the bottom line if Bank of Granite had not carved out a narrow but well-defined niche.
The footnote at the bottom of that second explains what a greenshoe is very well indeed.
People tend to pile into hot funds after a bull market is well under way and to exit in a panic at the bottom of a bear market.
"We have known for some time that the cement used to secure the production casing and isolate the hydrocarbon zone at the bottom of the Macondo well must have failed in some manner, " the letter said, noting that BP used a "nitrogen foam cement" recommended and supplied by Halliburton.
Many non-profit organizations are developing profitable income streams to both help their constituencies as well as the sustainability of their organizations by ensuring a stable bottom line.
Here as well is a chart of what a seasonally adjusted bottom near the middle of the selling season might look like.
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Criticism of the disaster has sprung in part from decisions made over the design of the BP well, which used a single pipe, known as a "long string", that ran from the sea floor to the bottom of the well.
We can see plenty of influence from both Gingerbread and Honeycomb here, as well as four shortcuts on the bottom (a definite bump from the two found on vanilla 2.3).
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This a major failing, because organizations are only able to perform well on the triple bottom line measures of profitability, sustainability, and social impact when they are designed with this objective in mind.
Responding to the share plunge, in a conference call at 11 a.m. central, McMoran Chairman Jim Bob Moffett explained that although the bottom of the Davy Jones well was currently plugged and stubbornly resisting attempts to get it flowing, he was confident that investors would soon get some good news.
Assuming the expense allocation was reflective of how they would ultimatly split the money, the bottom line effect that it had could have been achieved with a well drafted partnership agreement.
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