"oil" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It is painfully clear that the telecommunications debacle eclipsed in size all recent investment bubbles, whether they involved dot-coms or oil wildcatters.
- Around the turn of the century, an oil wildcatter dug a well on the site, but, disappointed at finding only hot water, capped the pipe and left.
- To Bush admirers, the candidate's time as an oil wildcatter constitutes proof of rugged individualism of the kind celebrated by generations of Republican orators.
- George W. Bush, who went off to Texas to be an oil wildcatter, never had a chance to learn these lessons about the power of nuanced, fact-based analysis.
- Her father was an oil wildcatter who moved from town to town searching for a gusher that he never hit.
- In 1983, Stanley Shuman, Murdoch's investment banker, introduced him to Marvin Davis, the oil wildcatter who had seized control of 20th Century-Fox.
- He looked like a rancher or an old-time oil wildcatter; his steel-blue eyes promised no nonsense and warned that he would take no bull from anyone.
- Dr. Kirpatrick, who will be 68 in November, was born in Duncan, Okla., the daughter of an oil wildcatter.
- Playing an active role in running the farm and working for successful local entrepreneurs like oil wildcatter Harry Moran sparked his early interest in business.
- Carter was born the son of an oil wildcatter in East St. Louis, Illinois.
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