Word: crude
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...days of haggling at meetings in Europe and the Persian Gulf, Naimi finally announced a breakthrough: Iran, Algeria, Venezuela, Mexico and the Saudis agreed to press OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) and non-OPEC countries for a 2 million- bbl.-a-day reduction in the flow of crude, a figure equivalent to nearly 3% of world output...
...heading for another oil shock? Not even close. Although the news sent futures prices for West Texas crude rocketing past the $15 barrier, and gasoline may soon rise a few cents per gal., the world is still awash in oil. And there's not much that OPEC can do about it. (The latest spot price of Saudi Arabian light is also starting to rebound, at $9.96.) Indeed, traders are watching to see whether OPEC, which has been unable to police its members in the past, can deliver the promised reductions when it meets on March 23 in Vienna. "Oil exporters...
...sometimes, the offender isn't a stranger in a dark alley; he is an acquaintance or even a friend. I suppose that this is why Professor Wisse's letter to the editor offended me so much (Opinion, March 11). She calls for rally demonstrators "to explain their aberrant and crude behavior...
...sometimes, the offender isn't a stranger in a dark alley; he is an acquaintance or even a friend. I suppose that this is why Professor Wisse's letter to the editor offended me so much (Opinion, March 11). She calls for rally demonstrators "to explain their aberrant and crude behavior...
...think the demonstrators owe it to themselves and their fellow students to explain their aberrant and crude behavior. Moral seriousness is very different from moral strutting. I sincerely hope that students here will continue to know the difference. RUTH R. WISSE March...