That shoves the ever-spreading Gulf spill firmly out of what we know about traditional tort law and into the strange world of mass torts like asbestos, fen-phen and Vioxx.
Equipment designed to cap any potential oil spill in case of a blow-out was damaged, work had to instantly stop.
As they bond in a persuasive, unforced way, their thoughts and feelings about spouses, children, jobs, and their own self-images trickle or spill out.
Apart from the political fall-out from the oil spill, there are other, financial, reasons why there has been such an acrimonious row over who is to blame.
Those curious to relive the spill's details should get hold of the excellent, out-of-print book by Art Davidson, In the Wake of the Exxon Valdez (Sierra Club Books).
Earlier this month, Greenpeace claimed Gazprom's oil spill response plan went out of date in July and says that - according to the Russian Ministry of Emergency - the company has not submitted or approved a new one.
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The BP Oil Spill was unique in that it was a man-made disaster, played out in slow motion over months and televised from the bottom of the sea.
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Before she ruled, the judge heard an apology from a BP executive and emotional testimony from relatives of the 11 workers who died when BP's blown-out Macondo well triggered an explosion on the rig and started the spill.
Companies had feared that the lockout would spill over into the crucial holiday shopping season and take a chunk out of their pre-Christmas sales.
Earlier in the briefing in talking about the oil spill, you had said -- about the volume of the spill, you had said there are certainly many reasons to find out the degree to which that is happening.
They spill out from the Downtown East Side, an area of decrepit boarding houses, sleazy bars and boarded-up shops infamous for the country's highest rates of poverty and drug addiction.
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The building, designed by the Rockwell Group, uses a flowing design throughout the hotel -- literally, through the lights moving up and down its walls, and symbolically, as people spill out onto the street corners from its ground floor nightclub.
The FIA -- motorsport's governing body -- announced their decision on Monday, but it has done little to dampen speculation and stories continue to spill out in its wake.
Much of the rest of the time, winter-fleeing northerners pack beaches on both the Pacific and Caribbean coasts, crowds in the party town clubs spill out into the streets, and the tourism industry is in full swing.
Some groused that spending hundreds of dollars on a silk trench for a 5-year-old is impractical, since she will grow out of it in six months and probably spill something on it, rip it or destroy it some other way before then.
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