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On April 9, David Sims, a BP manager, explained to colleagues in an e-mail that the Nile job was a "gap-filler" between Macondo and Kaskida, and that he hoped the government regulatory agency, the Minerals Management Service, would provide some flexibility in its approved date for starting the Kaskida job because of delays in completing Macondo.
BP cost-cutting measures are focus of U.S. inquiry into gulf spill Joel Achenbach 2010
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On April 9, David Sims, a BP manager, explained to colleagues in an e-mail that the Nile job was a "gap-filler" between Macondo and Kaskida, and that he hoped the government regulatory agency, the Minerals Management Service, would provide some flexibility in its approved date for starting the Kaskida job because of delays in completing Macondo.
BP cost-cutting measures are focus of U.S. inquiry into gulf spill Joel Achenbach 2010
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“We had always expected a gap-filler with typically intermediate features such as a moderately elongate tail – neither long nor short – but the strange thing about Darwinopterus is that it has a head and neck just like that of advanced pterosaurs, while the rest of the skeleton, including a very long tail, is identical to that of primitive forms”.
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Yeah, I'm definitely more of a gap-filler than idea-generator ... but that's largely why I'm leaving the "R1" world!
Ideas That Bounce Candid Engineer 2008
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It's no more of a 'gap-filler' than 'it was all meaningless chance' is.
Dawkins and ID 2008
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It's no more of a 'gap-filler' than 'it was all meaningless chance' is.
Dawkins and ID 2008
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Early picks of Grady Sizemore for $38 or Chone Figgins for $27 seemed a little on the high side as the draft began, but for a few dollars more I could have had either of them and still spent a reasonable amount on a gap-filler such as Sosa.
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Prophetic materialism is like a tube of caulking, a great gap-filler.
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Again, how is this relevant to Bradford's point and how is Behe's assertion that science can't tell us whether or not the designer was a demon amount to advocating for demonic action as a scientific gap-filler?
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Biden's an obvious gap-filler pick, in terms of Obama's resume.
Biden Offers Testament To Obama's Character And Toughness 2009
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