Mainland China's petroleum industry enjoyed spectacular growth between 1960 and 1978, when the Taching (Daqing) oilfield in Heilungkiang (Heilongjiang) Province began to operate on a large-scale basis.

Since we have a magazine here, which is due out next week, and I have not been doing back-up this week as the ARCServe software is too old for the ultranew tape-back-up-drive, and I can't do a manual back-up until everyone's gone and since there's so much footie this week I have not been the last one here, so no manual NT4 back-up done this week, well it's a bit of a fuck-up if you excuse my français....

I must have made him angry with my comment. He’s been giving me the cold shoulder ever since I said it.

That marketing scheme looks like a scam to me.