Word: barreled
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...billion industry in prime condition. But with China's and India's demand for crude inspiring projections for exponential growth and the U.S.'s determination to remain a slave to oil, the oil industry may well have hit a point when the short term is the long term--every barrel not pumped today will be worth more tomorrow. "The Venezuelans are investing as much as they want to," says economist Mark Weisbrot, a co-director of the Center for Economic Policy and Research in Washington. "That is, they're not in a hurry at all to expand production...
...YORK CITY CB2 Crate & Barrel's less-expensive line of home furnishings and accessories (above) brings its brand of hip, modern style to SoHo in November with a new store...
...Institute of Chicago, arrived in February as president and CEO of the city's J. Paul Getty Trust. "Young artists no longer think they have to go to New York after they get their degrees," observes artist Baldessari. "For the galleries, it's like shooting fish in a barrel here?there is so much of a talent pool...
This does not, however, mean that Australia's road to multi-culti has been stoneless. Translated into government policy, multi-culti in the 1980s became, its critics say, not just a neutral recognition of diversity but a pork barrel for buying the temporary loyalties of ethnic groups...
...stunt, it turned out, had been organized by Greenpeace to protest an old industrial dump near Basel that was said to be leaking chemical waste into the groundwater. The barrel carried water from a source by the dump in which, protesters said, they had found traces of drugs made by Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant that Vasella leads as chairman...