Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...model of hunt and kill. Captivated by effects that are ever more graphic, game boys learn to associate gusts of "blood" with the primal gratifications of scoring. In Golden Eye, a big seller, the player spends nearly all his time drawing a bead on his victims down the barrel...
...petrodollars to get otherwise reluctant countries to negotiate, including OPEC members Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, and non-OPEC Mexico. Their plan: cut back production to firm prices. And OPEC's tried-and-true remedy may work again. News of a pending deal pulled prices up to almost $17 a barrel last week. The market response indicates confidence that the exporters will make their cuts stick. And if they don't, prices will fall again...
With oil prices in the doldrums and a 2 million-barrel glut in the supply, producers are forced to suppress their instinct to make up the revenue shortfall by pumping a few extra barrels -- production cuts are the only way to restore the good times...
TIME: What happens if Suharto refuses to cooperate? Does he have the IMF over a barrel...
...place of laughter and music and bad poetry, where a sugar cube under the tongue could demolish the authority of reason itself. The prankster visions of the Acid Tests swirled around the stark realities of American power, and the decade found its signature moments: a flower in a gun barrel, a Defense Secretary scowling out a Pentagon window at the hippies trying to levitate his fortress. When Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not seek re-election, in March 1968, he was tacitly admitting that the freaks might be right. Suddenly, Richard Nixon was President, and millions of people--many...