Word: crude
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flames. Across the street four young men laughed and shouted, "Let the car burn. Niggers don't need to be in Melrose Park." One night as Stephanie set out for her cashier's job, several youths waved a rope and taunted her with threats of a lynching. Later a crude wooden cross was burned on the lawn...
...fashioned an institution all its own, against perhaps tougher odds than faced either of the others. Like the Public, the L.A.T.C. tends to excuse artistic lapses on the grounds of good intentions: its present offering of a black South African tract, Bopha!, performed by the authors, is exuberant but crude. The other show now running, however -- the debut of Kingfish by local writer Marlane Meyer -- is an adroitly staged, intelligently acted and gut-thumping depiction of mankind at its most predatory...
When Iran and Iraq decided to end their eight-year war, oil producers hoped that a new spirit of unity in OPEC would lead to a boost in crude prices. But the cartel is still fueled more by friction than by fellowship, and oil prices are plunging. Last week the cost of West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark grade of U.S. crude, dropped 4%, to $14.18 per bbl. -- its lowest level in nearly two years. Reason: although OPEC agreed last month to hold daily output to 15 million bbl., some 20 million bbl. are flooding the market each day. Among those...
That could be good news for consumers. If crude-oil output remains high and prices stay down, gasoline and heating oil will eventually cost less. But it will take at least two months for the benefits of OPEC's overproduction to trickle down to the retail level...
There were a few cries of sacrilege when it became known some years ago that oil companies were searching for crude beneath the streets of Paris, using noisy trucks equipped with seismic scanners to chart geologic formations below the Champs Elysees, the Arc de Triomphe and other hallowed landmarks. But last week Elf-Aquitane, one of France's national oil companies, announced that it had recovered an encouraging 27 bbl. of oil from a 6,500-ft.-deep well about four miles from the heart of Paris...