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trans-Alaska pipeline

n. an oil pipeline that runs 800 miles from wells at Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez [syn: Alaskan pipeline]

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The conclusion of the executive summary posited the possibility that the entire field could rival the one in Saudi Arabia, although it was far harder to transport oil from it-except for the fact, the report went on, that the Trans-Alaska pipeline had already been built, and the new fields would only need a few hundred miles of extension on the existing pipeline, which, the summary concluded arrogantly, had produced a negligible environmental impact.

I'm wondering if the murderers are employees of the trans-Alaska pipeline.

In merely forty years they have yielded to the Golden Gate Bridge, Manhattan's World Trade Center, the Kennedy Space Center, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and the overall Interstate Highway System.