21.   Over time, however, oil prices recovered a bit, and new technology made drilling both easier and more likely to find oil.

22.   Small amounts of oil are almost certainly still inside the wreck, but no oil has been found on the beaches for more than two months.

23.   The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska was not the only place the Bush administration was hoping to find more oil.

24.   The company had trouble finding oil, and some Midlanders jokingly called it Ar-BUST-o.

25.   The technology could be used to find pictures of people on the Web, pinpoint a tumor in an MRI image or find oil by analyzing seismic readings.

26.   Their shares surged over the last two years as a drilling boom prompted by technological improvements cut the price of finding oil.

27.   Their shares surged over the last two years because of drilling boom prompted by technological improvements that cut the price of finding oil.

28.   Their shares surged over the last two years as technological improvements cut the price of finding oil, prompting a drilling boom.

29.   Two weeks ago, a full year after oil first was found on the hams, the plant was cited again for the problem.

30.   What happens to price depends on a lot more than industry technology, but the cost of finding new oil clearly has dropped.