Small Businesses May Sink Under Drilling Hiatus

Lawyers for the Obama ____1____ (政府) and the oil industry will be back ____2____ (在法庭上) in New Orleans tomorrow. They will argue whether a six-month moratorium on deep-water ____3____ (钻井) is legal.

The ____4____ (内政部) wants the time to develop new safety and environmental ____5____ (规章), but last month a federal judge ____6____ (与某人站一边) the industry and ruled the agency acted too hastily in putting the moratorium in place.

All the big names in the oil industry will be paying close attention to the ____7____ (法律论据). And there also will be hundreds of small businesses that'll be watching. Unlike the big companies, their very existence could be ____8____ (危如累卵) if the moratorium continues. 

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