Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carbon dioxide is a clear gas that puts the bubbles in pop and beer and makes drinkers burp. The fact that it can do as much for tired oil wells, and thereby rejuvenate them, has made CO2 one of the most promising ingredients in the U.S. energy mix. Indeed, oil firms are now sinking more than $1.5 billion into a pair of pipelines to deliver CO2 from southern Colorado to declining Texas oilfields, even though falling oil prices threaten to squeeze the ventures' profits...
...Carbon-dioxide injections are just one of a panoply of methods for pepping up senescent wells. All have arisen because conventional pumping can extract only about one-third of the contents of a field before the flow stops. When oil prices were still rising, experts predicted that enhancing techniques could more than double U.S. recoverable reserves, which now stand at about 30 billion bbl. But some current projections are for an increase in reserves of closer to 50%. That would still be enough to keep U.S. wells flowing into the middle of the 21st century...
...some unlucky cardholders, such warnings come too late. Even if their plastic has not been stolen, they have been victims of a fraud. Lately thieves have begun getting account information by pilfering the carbon paper that is found between the pages of individual charge slips, either by combing through the trash behind elegant shops and restaurants or colluding with dishonest employees working inside. Once the account information is in hand, it is no trick to order merchandise over the phone, since this requires the presentation of neither an actual card nor a valid signature. One band of California criminals stole...
...cars, trucks and buses evidently continued to enter the tunnel after the explosion. Soviet troops, fearing that the explosion might have been a rebel attack, reportedly closed off both ends with tanks and trapped uncounted victims inside. Some burned to death; others were killed by smoke and by carbon monoxide escaping from vehicles whose drivers kept their engines idling to stay warm in the freezing cold. The devastation was so great that afterward six trucks laden with bodies, mostly Soviet troops, reportedly were driven away from the tunnel...
AUGUST 9, 1984: An aging group of classmates assembled in Washington today as hundreds of former White House employees helped Richard M. Nixon mark the tenth anniversary of his resignation from the Presidency. Beneath a ceiling draped with dark, carbon streamers, Mistress of Ceremonies Rose Mary Woods began the evening by passing out complimentary copies of her recent bestseller. The Rose Mary Woods Guide to 200 Honorable American...