Word: colorlessness
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Sometimes discovered in conjunction with crude, natural gas -- a colorless mixture of methane and other hydrocarbons -- was long considered worthless and burned off at the wellhead. In the postwar years, its price was so tightly regulated by the Federal Government that producers were discouraged from searching for the fuel. After prices were deregulated in the 1980s, the low cost of petroleum helped keep gas prices depressed. Wholesale natural gas sells for about $1.50 per 1,000 cu. ft., the equivalent of $9 per bbl. for oil. Observes T. Boone Pickens, a major oil-and-gas producer: "At that price, there...
...cannot save a country from the effects of economic lassitude. Nevertheless, the book is flawed by a few of the author's quirks. He tries to imbue various transliterations of China's capital with poetry, alternating "Peking" (for the citadel redolent with the imperial past) with "Beijing" (for the colorless communist metropolis). It is an unnecessarily romantic subtlety made more confusing by Elegant's use of idiosyncratic spellings of Chinese names. He also provides one questionable historical interpretation of a 17th century border treaty between Moscow and Beijing. But these are quibbles. Those who wish to divine the shape...
...secluded wood 55 miles east of Prague, smoking chimneys rise above the East Bohemian Chemical Enterprise. A large complex of ramshackle sheds and concrete buildings, the factory looks unprepossessing enough. But a "special production unit" is mixing batches of one of Czechoslovakia's most lethal exports: Semtex, the odorless, colorless plastic explosive of choice for terrorists the world over...
...watch her heir apparent being groomed on the couch next to her. Norville too was probably treated unfairly in the press. Would a man in the same position have been so rudely characterized as a conniving climber? And why, some may wonder, does Harry Smith, the competent but colorless male half of the CBS This Morning team, get to stay on while Sullivan is forced to dust off her resume...
IMAGINE a policy that would replace Harvard's 12 distinct houses with bland dormitories--colorless places to live. Imagine a policy that would eliminate a student's right to express a preference for where he or she will live for three years...