Posts Tagged ‘awaits’
BP says unprepared for Gulf spill; pipe awaits cut (AP)
AP – BP’s top executive acknowledged Thursday the global oil giant was unprepared to fight a catastrophic deepwater oil spill as engineers were forced yet again to reconfigure plans for executing their latest gambit to control the Gulf of Mexico gusher.
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Gulf Coast awaits word that oil flow has stopped (AP)
AP – It could be late Friday or over the Memorial Day weekend before the world knows if BP’s latest effort has succeeded in stopping the surge of oil in the Gulf of Mexico that has already surpassed the Exxon Valdez disaster as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.
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Gulf awaits word on latest bid to plug oil leak (AP)
AP – If oil stops flowing to the surface in the Gulf of Mexico, BP officials will know that their latest effort to plug a blown-out undersea well off the Louisiana coast was successful.
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Poland awaits return of president’s body (AP)
AP – Poland was enveloped in mourning Sunday, with many attending church services to mark the loss of President Lech Kaczynski and many of the country’s elite in a plane crash in Russia.
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Eastern floods scatter residents as worst awaits (AP)
AP – Flooding across the Northeast forced hundreds of residents from their homes by Wednesday, knocked out sewage plants, and snarled traffic on major East Coast routes as roads transformed into a soaked labyrinth of detours and closures.
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Jobs bill with tax breaks awaits only Obama’s signature (AP)
AP – Companies that hire unemployed workers will get a temporary payroll tax holiday under a bill that easily won final congressional approval Wednesday.
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As Bernanke awaits 2nd term, Fed mulls exit plan (AP)
AP – Now that the economy is on the mend, the Federal Reserve this year can focus on how and when to pull back the stimulus money pumped out to fight the financial crisis. With his prospects for another term brightening, Ben Bernanke will lead that effort.
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