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- adjective Before the occurrence of a
spill
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Examples
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Dividend payments, even if resumed this year, won't likely regain prespill levels.
BP's Slippery Path Toward Redemption Andrew Peaple 2011
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And it fended off demands to pay for restoration of the Gulf coast beyond its prespill conditions.
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And BP said it wouldn't pay to restore the Gulf coast beyond its prespill conditions.
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And it fended off demands to pay for restoration of the Gulf coast beyond its prespill conditions.
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Left alone over the next decade, wild rainbow trout swimming in from the Sacramento's tributaries would rebuild populations to the prespill level.
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He also called on oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico to be restored to the pace seen before the BP disaster last year, even though drilling activity is already approaching prespill levels and the Interior Department has announced a major new lease sale.
NYT > Home Page By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. 2011
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The sale is part of the administration's gradual return to its prespill strategy of encouraging more oil and gas exploration in coastal waters.
NYT > Home Page 2011
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These experts will add up the numerous variables and determine how much it will cost to "restore the Gulf to its prespill condition," Kanner said.
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But a review of the Louisiana's prespill preparation suggests that the state may be open to the same criticisms that Mr. Jindal has leveled at BP and federal authorities. oil spill coordinator's office.
NYT > Home Page By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON 2010
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