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Maybe life wasn’t a barrel of laughs at the time, but it makes what’s happening now all the sweeter...
...unlike the quartet of Desperate Housewives, they don't have affairs with pistol-packing plumbers. But what this winsome wallflower of a comedy-drama lacks in pyrotechnics, it makes up for with tart, zippy dialogue that explores their work, love and family dilemmas without cracking open the mush barrel...
...until today, we will reach the dreaded 1,006.5-billion-bbl. halfway mark late this year. For two years, I've been predicting that world oil production would reach its peak on Thanksgiving Day 2005. Today, with high oil prices pushing virtually all oil producers to pull up every barrel they can sweat out of the ground, I think it might happen even earlier...
...directions, and in four to six weeks you can be uncorking wine from your own château or apartment. To move beyond kits to get the whole grape-stomping experience, you have to spend at least an additional $400 to buy the basics: grape crusher, strainer, press and barrel...
...appearing on TV in a cardigan and calling for sacrifice, there was a clear sense of national emergency. That crisis receded, thanks in part to conservation and investments in energy efficiency and in part to the worldwide recession the oil shocks helped trigger. As a result, a barrel of oil costs 30% less today, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than it did at its peak in 1981. This is not the first time the world has run out of oil. Yergin says it's the fifth or sixth...