Word: bled
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While that brought prosperity to the industrial, consuming nations, it bled the producers. OPEC members watched their petrodollar budgets slide into the red, and other exporters, such as Russia and Mexico, went virtually bankrupt from lost oil revenues. Finally, in the past year, OPEC's members woke up. Why should the West profit from unparalleled prosperity while they drew up austerity plans? They boosted the cost of crude by slowing production, until a barrel fetched nearly $35. Americans, like Europeans, started to grumble at the steady rise in the price they paid to gas up. By summer, U.S. drivers were...
From her earliest days growing up in Boston, Mills bled pure Crimson. Her father, former running back Mel J. Gordon '41, instilled the love of Harvard football into his daughter. "We went to every Harvard football game all through high school," she recalls...
That's not all: If the pencil had taken a slightly different trajectory, it could have destroyed far more of the heart's blood-pumping machinery. And it just missed an artery in Nathan's chest that could have bled enough to send the boy into shock. "As it was," says Williams, "there couldn't have been more than a thimbleful of blood in the pericardium [the membrane surrounding the heart]. He needed no transfusion, which is fairly unusual for a child undergoing heart surgery...
...final nudge towards ending Syria's state of war with Israel arose from Barak's threat to unilaterally withdraw Israeli forces from Lebanon. For nearly two decades, Syrian-backed guerrillas have bled Israeli troops stationed in south Lebanon. The prospect of pacifying south Lebanon by curbing these guerrillas has been Syria's most effective means of compelling Israel to return the Golan Heights. Barak's repeated commitment to withdraw his troops by July 2000 threatened to deprive Syria of its most powerful point of leverage. Under pressure to act while he still possessed his Lebanon trump card, Assad has opted...