Based upon queuing theory and released after the 1979 energy crisis, the game puts the player in the role of chief executive of Engulf Oil, setting gas prices and worker salaries, monitoring gas station lines, scheduling oil tanker arrivals, and negotiating oil prices with OPEC countries in a race against the clock to maximize profits.
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Windfall: The Oil Crisis Game is a real-time business simulation game developed by David Mullich in 1980 for the Apple II.
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In 1925, White received an unexpected windfall when a valuable mine of Galena ore was found on his property.
Thus, using any reasonable discount rate, the Present value of the windfall gain will be dramatically smaller (perhaps one tenth) of the windfall gain stated in the CAG Report.
He is known for his performances on television, ranging from Doug in NBC's short-lived drama Windfall, to his portrayal of real life, former prison inmate Alan Beaman, later exonerated after being found to be innocent, in the Discovery Channel's docu-drama Guilty or Innocent.
The single "Baby You Should Know" has been featured on Fox Television's The O.C., and "Go Tell the World" was featured in ads for Nike Soccer and Homegoods, in a season two episode of Grey's Anatomy, season 1 of Lifetime's Army Wives and NBC's Windfall.
He has written and produced for the television series The Wonder Years, Law & Order, One Tree Hill, Brothers & Sisters, Pasadena, What About Brian, Windfall, Party of Five, its spin-off Time of Your Time and Ghost Whisperer, the latter three series all starred Jennifer Love Hewitt.
The entire event was recorded on 9 cameras by Windfall Films for their Monster Moves show, which is broadcast in the United States on the Discovery Channel and National Geographic Channel (under the names Mega Moves & Impossible Moves).
The remaining balance of $30,000 was donated to Foon Yew School to establish an endowment fund, a substantial sum in those days and a windfall for the struggling school.
Jeff Terranova from Up Front and Windfall and Chris worked out a deal, and in early 1996 Jeff was the new owner of the label.
Following the decision to merge with the SCG Trust the club has experienced a significant financial windfall, allowing them to assemble one of the better squads in the competition, including the purchase of recently de-listed players Dominic Thornley and Daniel Smith and English representatives Joe Denly and Sam Northeast.
Tingle's first appearance in The Wind Waker is in a small, dingy prison cell on Windfall Island.
On 13 November 2007, the club received a windfall of £114,000 after former player and Scotland goalkeeper Craig Gordon was transferred from Hearts to Sunderland for £9 million.
At least nine bills that purported to tax windfall profits of crude oil producers were introduced in the 110th United States Congress during 2007-08 (HR 1500, HR 2372, HR 5800, HR 6000, S.1238, S.2761, S.2782, S.2991, S.3044) .
A Windfall tax or Windfall profits tax is a taxation of profits by a company.