They were all gnats on the back of the elephant that was Yahoo!

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That means he is turning his back on the kinds of large-scale seismic testing used to prospect for elephant fields--a high-margin business dominated by Schlumberger.

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Soon villagers began noticing elephant footprints stopping abruptly at the edge of chili fields and tracking back to other plots.

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