Chevron, for instance, decided recently to dump its holdings in the Cook Inlet area.

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In the early 1990s there were more than a thousand of the Cook Inlet's genetically distinct belugas.

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Leap and Savary Island have agreed to assign T-Mobile and Cook Inlet spectrum in various markets in Alabama, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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The future of the Cook Inlet belugas is caught between the competing, and sometimes conflicting, interests of environmentalists, conservation scientists, native Alaskans and economic developers.

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The transactions also include intra-market exchanges between Leap, T-Mobile and Cook Inlet, in Philadelphia, Wilmington, Atlantic City and various markets in Texas and New Mexico, and between Leap and Cook Inlet in certain markets in Texas.

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They are working on a project in the Cook Inlet of Alaska that would provide enough syngas to fuel a 100 MW power plant, as well as investigating opportunities for UGC in Alberta and Wyoming.

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By chance his brother, a teacher in Alaska, put him in touch with a small law firm that wanted help representing fishers in Cook Inlet, a body of water physically separated from the spill by the Kenai Peninsula.

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