Word: alignement
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...align their official rates with sagging world petroleum markets, nine of the 13 OPEC members reshuffled the prices of a variety of crudes they sell; the effect was to reduce the weighted average cost of an OPEC barrel of oil by 29 cents, although some grades will drop by more than $1. It was only the second price cut in the organization's 25-year history. The first came in March 1983, when sliding world crude prices forced OPEC to mark down its Arab Light benchmark crude...
...Superpower Relations. We have been friends with the Soviet Union for a long time. They were friends when we needed them and there are many issues on which we think alike without having to align with each other. That doesn't mean that we don't want to be friends with the U.S. We want to improve our relations in every sphere with the U.S. But we want to keep our option of individuality open...
Despite the complexity of converting visuals into numbers, coders say that the computer procedures are a quantum leap over the all-manual page assembly of the past. "This method is more exact," explains Coder Steve Feeback. "The computer can align things more precisely than...
...that international law will work with these states--notice what little recourse the Islamic world had when Afghanistan was invaded. Unfortunately for us, the Sandinistas have inaugurated Nicaragua into this fraternity of outlaw nations. Even while the United States was giving Nicaragua economic aid, the Sandinistas were deciding to align themselves with the soviets, engage in an unprecendented military buildup, and spread their revolution to El Salvador. Their revolutionary position predates by far the Reagan Administration's efforts at covert...
...says. Vellucci, however, is less enthusiastic. Although in age and in style of politics, as well as in general ideological leaning. Vellucci is closer to the conservative bloc than the liberal one, his strong and vocal support of rent control and other housing-related issues caused him to align himself with the liberal camp on many controversial decisions in the past, enabling him to wield considerable power as the council's swing vote...