Word: barreled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before coming to the academy. "Here the students really care," she says. "The kids at public school are rezzed out." This phrase provokes snickers from the class. Rezzed out means being provincial, unsophisticated, too much of the reservation. Those kids, she implies, don't care about studying. Claude, a barrel-chested tackle on the football team, came to the academy from a public school in Arizona. "At the public school," he says, "the guys would just drink and party. Here is a better atmosphere." If a student at the academy is caught drinking -- or smoking dope, which is rapidly replacing...
...have also spoken of immediate steps to reduce the price of oil from its current level of about $33 a barrel to about $20 a barrel...
...stock on hand, nearly 100 days' worth. So if we draw from these inventories we will still have enough oil to take us into 1991, and I don't think this crisis will last that long. If we do that, prices will quickly come down to about $20 a barrel. But if we don't, the price will gradually go up to $60 a barrel. Even if nothing else happens. Of course, if we have a severe winter, unfortunately, it could go even higher...
...lawyer, WAR leader Metzger is casting himself as a beleaguered populist, but not an instigator of violence. "I'm a white racial separatist," Tom Metzger says, "and I can sit down with any person, white, black or Oriental, and talk about it." Metzger's easygoing cracker-barrel manner in Portland is belied by the angry messages he tapes for WAR telephone lines. There he calls nonwhites "mud people" and "assorted scum"; attorney Dees is "Morris the pervert"; trial judge Ancer L. Haggerty, who is black, is an "Uncle Tom"; and the trial, says Metzger, is a "legal lynching...
...wise (if cynical) political move, but it does little to combat the mess into which the budget process has descended. As the deficit-reduction package of 1982 showed, increases in revenue are rarely used to combat the deficit--they usually end up as a justification for more pork-barrel spending...