Last April Norwegian explorer DNO hit pay dirt--330 million barrels in the Tawke field.
The rover hit pay dirt early, landing inside a shallow crater ringed in layered rock outcroppings.
In 1976, Miller hit pay dirt by winning the players' free agency.
He drilled the well only another 5, 000 feet and hit pay dirt.
Last summer her team hit pay dirt: They found a tiny alteration of just four chemical beads, or "letters, " in the 35, 000-letter-long Flap gene.
Then, suddenly, pay dirt: Two months later museum curator James C.
Our nation grew rich (in myriad ways) because risk takers hit pay dirt, others saw what they did, grew envious, and attempted to do the same thing.
For our inaugural Google Search Watch post, we analyzed credit card-related searches, and found that MasterCard seems to have hit pay dirt with its new MarketPlace site.
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Former pop music chart-toppers Jennifer Lopez, Paula Abdul, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera seem to have hit pay dirt by morphing themselves into judges on television talent competitions.
What is really the key here is that the 150 feet of pay dirt already announced was found in sands not expected to bear hydrocarbons because in other wells they held nothing.
But eventually I hit pay dirt.
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With Walker in the fold (and on the cover of the March 7 issue of Sports Illustrated, alongside the words "Hitting Pay Dirt"), the Generals instantly emerged as the league's marquee franchise, as well as the popular pick to dominate the inaugural season.
Occasionally, one of these routines hits pay dirt (as when Whitney role-plays a naughty nurse, then makes her boyfriend fill out insurance forms), but most of the time it feels as if Whitney had torn out every article in Cosmopolitan, chewed them up like a hamster, and built a nest.
Perhaps had Romney and several more Republicans found pay-dirt the score would have remained somewhat closer.
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That job was the best I ever had because, even though the pay was dirt, the creative freedom and feedback from the town was exhilarating.
Lula said, had he known about the schemes to pay top-dollar for the dirt on the opposition, he would've stopped it.
Problems included a penchant for picking up dirt and fingerprints (the price you pay for a beautiful glossy face, we suppose), a cramped nav key layout with the tricky touch-sensitive Navi Wheel front and center, audio performance that wasn't bad but was expected to be far better in light of the dedicated DSP, and a "shovel"-like feel in the hand, a symptom of the phone's generous dimensions.
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