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...The artist Patssi Valdez, of the Chicanx art collective ASCO, is credited for the outlandish make-up....
...“What keeps people up at night is the idea of an Exxon Valdez in the Antarctic, a major grounding or something really environmentally catastrophic,” Lynch says....
...The ship that won that first prize, a $10m cheque from the Ansari family, whose wealth was built in the telecoms equipment industry, is now part of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic venture....
...“It is in everyone’s interests for a settlement to be agreed,” says Santander oil analyst Jason Kenney, who notes that wrangling over the Exxon Valdez spill dragged on for two decades....
...“This is the Exxon Valdez of intelligence leaks,” says Professor Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School. “It’s crude and messy, with uncertain implications.”...
...Richard Griffith of Evolution Securities says: “People just don’t want to take a risk until the relief wells hit and the well is plugged. But then the uncertainty will be over who owes who for what.”...
...Sir Richard Branson receives similar praise for a “positive, complimentary and dignified” response to a Virgin train crash in 2007....
...Since Richard Nixon, US presidents have been talking about curbing the country’s dependence on foreign oil; now there appeared to be a chance of making progress....
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