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...T-shirts and tote bags ($25) made in collaboration with the artist Derrick Adams marked The Schomburg’s first literary festival last June....
...As everyone from retailers to carmakers cuts capital expenditure, those lower down the chain — the ones fitting out shops, building production lines or supplying derricks — are carrying the can....
...This was working life at Tiger Oil Company, a Houston-based energy explorer....
...Oil-focused parts of the state — especially the west around Midland, and the south, including Houston, have been hit hard....
...This is a problem Kyra Houston knows all too well. Kyra is the sister of Uhuru “Gonja” Houston, a Port Authority police officer, who died rescuing people from the South Tower....
...Located opposite rigs at Todd Shipyards’ dry dock on Galveston Island, the museum replicates a fully working rig, complete with blowout preventers, drill collars and a derrick....
...They knew that if Houston was calling in the middle of the night, it had to be bad news....
...“Yes, he has operations far and wide – from Houston to Venezuela and Colombia – but he’s never invested in those countries the way he has here,” she added. “Antigua is personal for him.”...
...Chevron said some of its production platforms had been toppled; BP said a drilling derrick on one platform had fallen to the sea floor; and ConocoPhillips said some of its inland water operations in Louisiana...
...Massey, Houston, Texas SD: I think a better way to express this is to say that the UK economy has entered its downturn rather sooner than core Europe....
...But perhaps most helpful for the defence was James Derrick, Enron’s former general counsel, who scored several points in two days of testimony....
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