Word: crude
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...fans today may be well versed in the tale of Tupac and Biggie, the show transports them back to an era they may find hard to imagine. After all, the almost pharaonic fantasy world of a Puffy Combs video is light-years away from the hand-stenciled mimeographs with crude sketches advertising an around-the-way appearance of Kurtis Blow or a block party featuring Grandmaster Flash. This was a do-it yourself movement in the outer boroughs, a culture being built by hand, brick by brick - one to which the suits running the music industry in the glass towers...
...Bill Richardson's troubles, history may remember this as the year the secretary of energy got a very big promotion. Richardson announced Friday the administration's intention to dun the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for 30 million barrels of crude oil, and while the professed reason is to head off a heating-oil shortage this winter, Bill Clinton may have just created a new version of Alan Greenspan...
...this show will strike an opera-goer as familiar. Presented recitative-style, with alternating spoken dialogue and songs that reveal characters' feelings and motivations, there are secrets revealed, kidnappings, bumbling henchmen, crude comedy and low-tech special effects like flash pots and strobes. Characters have solos, duets and ensemble arrangements, accompanied by interpretive dancers. There is even a pas de deux...
...pony through the ground-floor corridor and up the elevator so that his ailing brother Archie would be cheered. All along the way an exuberant country of inventors made sure that early on the White House had running water, indoor plumbing, electric lights, central heating, telephones--even some crude air conditioning way back in 1881 to soothe the dying President James Garfield. Teddy Roosevelt, for all his progressive nature, was too fond of horses to adopt the automobile, though he was the first President to fly in an airplane. Right up to the end of his term...
...justify. "With today's price levels and huge valuation gaps," he says, "mid-size oil companies offer a far better value." For example, based on Lehman's earnings estimates for 2001, Marathon's price-to-earnings ratio is less than half that of ExxonMobil. Furthermore, Cheng argues that when crude prices drop to more sustainable levels, companies like Marathon and Conoco stand to benefit most from their downstream refining and marketing operations. So while the price at the pump may hurt, there's still a way to buy oil at a discount...