The technology employed is so advanced and exacting that drillers today can hit a target at the end of a drill string that is 10, 000 feet vertical with a mile long horizontal section that is no more than a few inches in diameter.
According to USA TODAY, some of the worst hit cities are Irvine, Calif.
While oil gets the attention, America uses just 15% more of it today than when the first modern energy crisis hit in October 1973.
Good sense got run over today when the EPA hit the gas instead of tapping the brakes.
Many of the people working to hit today's deadline were new to the civil service - it appears there was a big clearout after the Lane Fox report - and one imagines many will move on to other jobs soon.
And it would mean China could continue to buy US Treasury securities at a cheaper price to make up for the declining value of the dollar, which hit a new low for the past several decades today.
FORBES: We Are At A Tipping Point For the Dollar And The Chinese Yuan
The U.S. House plans to vote on a tax bill today that would keep lots of Americans from being hit this year with the alternative minimum tax - as many as 23 million.
Yesterday the market broke out and is hit our 1144 first target before a slight pull-in today ahead of the Fed announcement.
However, trading could die down quickly as U.S. and Canadian traders may hit the exit doors early today, ahead of the long holiday weekend.
Today, much of the world is in recession, with Asia hit especially hard.
Today the company hit the reset button on the beta version of its shop and went back to square one.
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Four infections were confirmed today, two more in Shanghai the worst hit of the eastern cities and two in Zhejiang Province.
We hit the floors of International Contemporary Furniture Fair today to bring you the best new green designs from one of the largest contemporary design shows in the US -- including Blackbody's gorgeous OLED light trees and Tat Chao's ethereal LED lamps made from recycled wine glasses.
Shares in Tingyi (Cayman Island), one of the largest beverage and snack producers in China, closed up by 0.6% in Hong Kong today on investor hopes that the worst of a rise in costs that hit earnings last year may have passed.
FORBES: Taiwan Billionaire Family's Tingyi Rises 0.6% on China Food, Beverage Hopes
Forbes colleague Kelly Clay has posted five reasons why Website publishers to should leave GoDaddy, the Internet registrar and site host hit today with a massive distributed denial of service attack, allegedly by hackers who claim to be aligned with Anonymous, the shadowy online activist group.
Less than 10 days from today, unless Washington reaches some sort of deal, the budget sequester will hit the economy.
FORBES: Sequester's March 1 Deadline Not Final, Delay Could Help Republicans
President Obama visited hard-hit Moore, Oklahoma, today to see firsthand some of the damage done by last Monday's deadly tornado.
Thanks to a piece in The New Republic called The Case Against Sotomayor, which is currently the third Google hit for her name (and sure to get lots of traffic today).
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And ultimately you've hit upon the core of this plan that has been rolled out today, which is an attempt to bridge the gap between the two thirds of the Democrats who would like to cut off funding and the third who ran in the fall elections essentially against that stance, and the inability of the Democratic leadership to bridge that gap.
Sanofi, which has been one of the best-performing drug stocks over the past year, is getting hit today because the company said that earnings in 2013 will be somewhere between flat and down 5%.
FORBES: Sanofi CEO: It's Not A Plavix Hangover, We're Investing In Launching New Drugs
The ultimate sign of interest and respect today is when fans and fellow musicians perform their own versions of a hit.
As we'll hear later, residents along the gulf coast continue to struggle from Gustav, which hit west of New Orleans a week ago today.
Efforts to put together a functioning government in Iraq hit another snag today when a small but influential Shiite party pulled out of the negotiations.
NPR: Political Stability and Personal Security Elusive in Iraq
Her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, hit No. 5 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction list today.
It would have been nice for our squad to have had a hit out then but with the game being today, we couldn't risk a lot of our first-choice players.
While women have fared better than men in the job market, this is mostly because they did not take the same hit to employment at the start of the downturn in late 2008 early 2009, Baker said today.
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