Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the present flurry has its origins in the 1973 Arab oil embargo, which persuaded many motorists to flee long gas lines for less frustrating subways and buses. The mounting energy crisis also spurred the Federal Government to provide up to 50% of transit systems' operating costs. Until then, money had been available only for capital and planning assistance. One result of this increased federal largesse was an investment spree in capital-intensive projects such as subways and electrified rail. There were some less benign results: fares well under the actual cost of service, leading inevitably...
...least five ideologically diverse groups promptly claimed "credit" for the bombings. From one of these groups re-emerged the Venezuelan terrorist Illitch Ramirez-Sánchez, better known as the infamous and long-sought "Carlos," who in 1982 masterminded a previous French train bombing. His Organization of Armed Arab Struggle announced in several phone calls to the press that the bombings were in response to last November's air raids on Shi'ite Muslim barracks in the ancient Lebanese city of Baalbek. At least 39 people died in those raids. But it is also possible that the most...
...major problem was not exhaust from motor vehicles but a new and growing source of pollution: the acrid, stinging smoke from wood-stove fires. Ever since the mid-1970s, when the Arab oil embargo sent fuel prices skyrocketing, the people of Missoula and many other American communities have been seeking out alternative sources of heat, including wood stoves. In the past decade, wood burning has more than doubled across the country. The Department of Energy estimates that more than 20% of all households now burn wood for some or all of their heat. In Vermont, more heating is done with...
...Goodman's release, it was a no-lose situation. If they decided to hold on to Goodman, the publicity generated by Jackson's trip would enhance Goodman's value as a Syrian bargaining chip with Washington. If they released him to the populist, relatively pro-Arab Jackson, they could show magnanimity and embarrass the Reagan Administration...
...Here's where the effects of the oil crisis become really complicated. Here, too, greed shows its ugliest face. When the leaders of Arab nations found themselves virtually buried by Western oil money they initially had almost nothing to buy. Although in the last few years increasing expenditures and decreasing revenues have narrowed this surplus (in some OPEC cases eliminating and even reversing it, as in Venezuela and Nigeria), at first the leaders of Arab nations had little to do with their wealth other than send it right back to Western banks...