In the months that followed, Chesapeake executed an adroit escape, raising nearly $5 billion with a previously undisclosed twist: By gouging many rural landowners out of royalty payments they were supposed to receive in exchange for allowing the company to drill for natural gas on their property.
Some of the eyes were gouged, while many hands and feet had burns and cuts typical of torture.
Impacts of asteroids and comets gouged out many of the larger lunar craters and basins that remain virtually unchanged on the waterless, airless Moon.
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His right hand was cut off, his teeth and hair were pulled out, one of his eyes was gouged out, and, among many other sufferings, boiling water was thrown in his face.
If NT7, which is one-and-one-quarter miles wide, does strike Earth at 60,000 miles an hour, the impact could gouge a crater many miles wide, destroying large swaths of the surrounding area.
The current system is so confusing and costly that it leaves many borrowers feeling gouged by a process from which they cannot escape.
The cost problem extends well into the provider setting, as is now just being gleaned through some reporting on price gouging by many big hospitals which jack up costs to patients through steeper co-pays, requiring cash up front before administering care, Medical Credit Scoring to determine if patients are a payment risk, and hounding patients for payment afterwards.
During the flyby, the spacecraft imaged a hemisphere of the asteroid, revealing many large craters that have gouged out depressions in the surface.
Some emerged weeks, months, or years later, many of them disfigured, with eyes gouged out, hands and fingers mangled.
