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Nabors CEO's 2008 compensation more than doubles

May. 11, 2009
The compensation received by Nabors Industries Ltd.'s chairman and chief executive more than doubled to $91.5 million in 2008, according to an Associated Press analysis of a recent regulatory filing, in a year when the oil and natural gas driller saw its net...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler