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...limit output. While such a pact might fall apart if producers cheat on quotas, as they have so many times in the past, word of the proposed meetings, which are scheduled to begin April 23, sparked a rally in the oil markets. The price of West Texas Intermediate crude rose by almost 12% last week, closing at $18.35 per bbl., the highest level since December...
Director Jennifer Harris chose a crude set for the play that appropriately looks as prefab as the houses that the play's characters inhabit--and the characters themselves...
...opinion against what many U.S. Senators have deemed America's "most reliable ally," and the "only viable democracy in the Middle East." The SAS hopes to create a permanent wedge between the United States and Israel. To expose their true intentions, all one has to do is analyze their crude, sensationalist posters...
...could face a long-term domestic shortage. Last week it was disclosed that the U.S. Geological Survey has lowered by 40% its estimates of oil and natural gas that remain to be found in the U.S. The survey, criticized by some experts as too pessimistic, puts undiscovered crude-oil deposits at about 33 billion bbl. That figure does not include undiscovered oil under federal offshore sites, which has been estimated at 12 billion bbl. The undiscovered resources, if taken together with proved U.S. reserves of 27 billion bbl., is only enough to last an estimated 20 years at current production...
While drug-related violence once touched mostly those in the business, no one is safe today. Basuco, a crude, habit-forming derivative of coca paste, was introduced into the local market by the cartel in 1984, when it had excess low-grade Colombian coca paste on its hands. Now there are thousands of addicts in the city, many of them knife-wielding street criminals who will kill for the price of a fix, less than a dollar. "Ten years ago you could stroll the city streets after dark," recalls Gomez. "That's suicidal...