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US
/væɫˈdɛz/
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NOUN
- a port on Alaska's southern coast from which oil is shipped to markets around the world
How To Use Valdez In A Sentence
- Despite President Barack Obama's recent, high-profile frolick in the gulf - during which he made a point of eating seafood and swimming in the region's seemingly "unpolluted" waters - questions remain about the spill's impact on both the region and the country as a whole: Will cleanup workers and residents suffer the same health problems that devastated those living and working near the Exxon/Valdez spill two decades ago? AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
- Valdez could be a Boeing machinist, Microsoft code writer, garment maker or call-center receptionist.
- Read that Wikipedia bio a little more carefully: "That summer, she worked her way across Alaska, washing dishes in Mount McKinley National Park and sliming salmon in a fish processing cannery in Valdez (which fired her and shut down overnight when she complained about unhealthy conditions) Clintons Release 2000-2006 Returns: Earned $110 Million, Paid $33 Million In Taxes
- Specifically, I am writing to ask you to forgive debt owed to the state, or any state banks such as CFAB, on all Prince William Sound herring seine and gillnet permits that were impacted by the Exxon Valdez oil spill -- or, at a minimum, to identify and work with the hardship cases to prevent further forced bankruptcies, home or business losses, or even more suicides over spill-related debt and stress. Riki Ott: A Letter to the Governor of Alaska
- Edward James Olmos, received critical acclaim for his portrayal of the pachuco in the stage and film version of Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit and for his role as Jaime Escalante in the film Stand and Deliver.
- The latest showbiz drama that I'm loving would be the feud between Wendy Valdez of PBB Season 2 and Uma Khouny of PBB Season 1. Archive 2007-09-01
- Up to now, the inceptive style of Chicano performance art has typically been identified with Luis Valdez's Teatro Campesino.
- It was the Exxon Valdez which ran aground on the Alaskan coast in 1989 spilling 40 million litres of crude oil.
- The oil terminus of Valdez lies at the end of a twenty-four-mile-long deepwater fiord in the northeastern corner of Prince William Sound. BARRACUDA 945
- It's taken so long to fix the jail for many reasons, Valdez says, most notably what she describes as the deplorable conditions she found there when she was first elected. PegasusNews.com stories