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...country was for decades able to produce more crude than it required, a circumstance that the government celebrated as a political victory. ("Study Daqing!" chanted legions of Red Guards during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution.) Oil and gas discoveries in the South China Sea and the Bohai Gulf, where drilling began in 1979, made China seem all the more invulnerable to oil shocks, and the country remained an oil exporter until 1993. Today, however, output from China's top four oil fields is in decline. By some estimates, the country's current proven reserves will be depleted in as little...
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...victim is Harry (David B. Rochelson ’05), a mild-mannered businessman who cuts through the play’s apathy with a brief moment of genuine despair when no one tries to stop his suicide attempt. Rochelson is reincarnated in the second act as Larry, a drill sergeant who forces the family into a semblance of normality while ignoring its real problems...
...undo much of the Clean Air Act. In 2000, Kerry co-wrote the legislation in a spending bill that provided funding for early childhood after-school programs, health care and parent education. In 2002, Kerry was one of the leading opponents against Bush’s plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The list goes on. If Kerry’s Senate record is liberal, then he has given liberal politics a better name...
...country's best-known "model worker" was Wang Jinxi, who was said to have plunged into a vat of Daqing oil during a freezing winter and stirred it with his body so it would continue flowing. Oil and gas discoveries in the South China Sea and Bohai Gulf, where drilling began in 1979, made China seem all the more invulnerable to oil shocks, and the country remained an oil exporter until 1993. Today, however, output from China's top four oil fields is in decline. By some estimates, the country's current proven reserves will be depleted...