Jack Nicholson gave his breakthrough lead performance as the cultivated roughneck Bobby Dupea.

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The brawny Hugh Jackman is a roughneck known as Drover, who drives her to the interior.

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Lets hope BAC hires a roughneck litigator and goes after the fraudster for more civil penalties.

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Mr. STEVE SMITH(ph) (Owner, Royale): I'm sure it was a little bit fast and loose, more loose than it had been done, but I'm sure it's actually probably more in the proud tradition of this sort of roughneck River City that we're in.

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Oil companies could use it to let a semiretired engineer, lounging poolside with his laptop, help a roughneck fix a broken valve on a platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

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