But S&P analyst Roy Shepherd says that rates for tankers topped out in the first quarter, so it's not unreasonable to assume that the high dividends paid by these companies are in question.
As the mission began, Ritchie and DeBellevue took to the air and immediately met a tanker to top off, as the taxi and take-off process burns a lot of jet fuel.
The Pentagon had not asked for the refueling tanker, but top Air Force officials in collusion with Boeing lobbyists did an end run to Congress that resulted in passage of an appropriation to lease the planes.
A municipal tanker lorry tops it up without charge.
And the world's largest oil tankers now top 230,000 tons.
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When can you get the Estonian President, Prime Minister, Vice President of the EU, innumerable foreign ministers, ambassadors, and top think tankers all in the same place?
When the load was gone, air was hissing from a valve at the top of the tanker.
Among those who promoted the tanker deal were Richard N. Perle, a top Pentagon adviser who is a member of the Defense Policy Board.
At 11 06 p.m. Tuesday, two men saw and smelled the ammonia leaking from the top of a tanker car just east of downtown, said Max Fruchter, a spokesman for the Fort Edward Fire Department.
