Word: barreled
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...like what the Fed tries to do - fine-tune supply so it matches demand. With Greenspan, it's money; with OPEC, it's oil. What they're aiming for is a per-barrel price in the $25-to-$30 range, which is just a little higher than what it is now, around...
...OPEC says its goal is price "stability" at $25 to $30 a barrel. As long as the production cuts turn out the way OPEC wants, it shouldn't cause the U.S. too much pain, because remember - almost half of the oil we use is pumped internally, so there's an economic argument for healthy oil prices here too. But if the price gets over $30, there are going to be problems...
...prevent the drilling from having a significant effect on the wildlife. We find it difficult to believe that large-scale industrial drilling in a pristine wilderness will be innocuous. More importantly, there is no pressing need to drill the refuge--we are by no means clutching to our last barrel of oil, despite Bush's ridiculous and intellectually dishonest references to the California energy crisis. The wildlife refuge would provide too little oil to justify its despoilation...
These bottom-of-the-barrel teams don't have to worry about winning all their games. They can take a night off, lose badly, then play their hearts out the next...
...without Clinton around, the protest wattage looks awfully low. Big Bad Bill's grandstanding skills were so formidable that GOP senator Phil Gramm on Thursday was blaming last year's pork-barrel budget on "Democrats working with the President." (Um, Phil, weren't you guys in the majority last year?) And this year the tax cut is coming the other way - from Pennsylvania Avenue to a still-unified Republican majority - and it's a few lower-income compromises away from winning over some Democrats as well...