Word: crudeness
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...announced that it was steaming ahead on its nuclear weapons program, repeatedly claiming it had reprocessed all of the spent fuel rods previously under IAEA seal at Yongbyon, which would provide enough fissile material for up to six bombs. (North Korea is believed to have built one or two crude nuclear bombs during the 1990s...
...poverty-stricken Bolivians protested in the capital, La Paz, and around the country, railing at President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. Sánchez - or Goni, as he is called - sent the army to restore order. As Bolivian soldiers fired on demonstrators, impoverished Indian mine workers used crude slingshots to hurl lighted sticks of dynamite back at them. But they were no match for the army's tear gas and bullets, and the clashes left as many as 80 people dead. The people around Goni had had enough. First, Vice President Carlos Mesa renounced the iron fist...
...Syncrude Canada's North Mine, a huge open pit nearly two miles across and 250 ft. deep, giant shovels scoop out a petroleum-soaked deposit called oil sand that is beginning a long journey from here into the gas tanks of American cars. The region contains enough of the crude mixture to produce an estimated 175 billion bbl. of oil, eight times the known deposits of conventional crude...
...hoppers for crushing. Hot water is injected to create a slurry that separates the raw oil from sand, clay and other particles. Then 2,500-h.p. pumps, the world's largest, push the viscous oil sands through pipes to a plant on-site that converts it to crude oil. From there, it goes by pipeline to refineries in the U.S. The output of the Alberta operations is expected soon to reach 1 million bbl. a day, surpassing U.S. crude production on Alaska's North Slope. The U.S. now imports more oil and petroleum products from Canada than from any other...
...decline in crude-oil prices was partly responsible, but a larger factor was a government policy reversal. Although bullish on shale, coal and other synfuels in 1980, Washington soon cooled to the idea, as it had done in the past. After 1980, the Reagan Administration thought private industry, not government, should shoulder all the costs. Subsidies were reduced, and in 1985 the Administration killed the entire program, except for the synthetic-fuels tax credit. "The Administration no longer believes continued funding of the Synthetic Fuels Corp. serves any useful purpose," Budget Director James Miller told Congress. Former Colorado Governor Richard...