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CPRA’s “bold” scheme for saving Plaquemines is to rehabilitate the crevasse for a post-crevasse age. The agency’s master plan calls for punching eight giant holes through the levees on the Mississippi and two more through those on its main distributary, the Atchafalaya. The openings will be gated and channelized, and the channels will themselves be

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It was a clear victory for the Tidewater. Ever the realist, Rockefeller conceded that the future of oil transport lay with long-distance pipelines and kicked off a massive construction program that quickly dwarfed the Tidewater’s. For his part, Benson and his shareholders had signaled almost from the start that they would be happy to be acquired. I

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Mr Hawley’s disgust at the notion of the Pioneer being edited by an emissary, and of Brooke becoming actively political – as if a tortoise of desultory pursuits should protrude its small head ambitiously and become rampant – was hardly equal to the annoyance felt by some members of Mr Brooke’s own family. The result had oozed forth gradually, like

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