Word: crude
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because world crude-oil supplies are abundant, most experts are optimistic about gas prices. Rutherford Poats, an economist with the Energy Futures Group in Bethesda, Md., predicts an increase of no more than 2 cents per gal. through midsummer...
Throughout The Diaries, we witness the duality of the man Jean-Paul Sartre as he approaches existence in the physical sense of an individual's existence and in the abstract sense of collective man's experience. He juxtaposes the crude material with the sophisticated abstract. He jumps from talking of a "posting inspection," during which "they made us piss into beer-mugs" and "strip to the buff," to nothing that "the method of Heidegger and such as may come after him is basically the same as that of Descartes." But for all his occasional snobisme, he returns to a realization...
...ordinary society, connives to engage in sexual congress with a group of attractive young women. They spy on the girls in the shower or while they are undressing for bed, start a food fight or something equally uplifting, crack a lot of dirty jokes, indulge in all sorts of crude and sometimes amusing behavior, and in the end triumph over the forces of stuffy convention, such as parents, policemen, school authorities and almost anybody else over...
...what kinds of computers will be used and where they will come from. Personal computers first appeared in the U.S. in the mid 1970s, but the Soviets did not produce one until 1983. That maiden model, called the Agat, a shortened form of the name Agatha, is a crude copy of the Apple II, one of the first personal computers sold...
...glut of oilrefining capacity was the industry's over-optimistic assessment of world demand for energy products. Total U.S. consumption of petroleum products rose only 4% last year after a five-year decline. In addition, Western refineries face increasing competition from oil- producing countries, which now refine their own crude at home. Between 1984 and 1988, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Kuwait, Libya and other oil countries will add about 3 million bbl. a day to their refining capacity...