Word: extractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While it may be absurd and naive to extract from a small pool of Harvard students the beginnings of a general nationwide trend, it is quite likely that some genius will do so in order to argue that American college students have emerged from their self-absorbed visions of money and grandeur. Be on the lookout for some "Latest on the Nation's Campuses" feature stories proclaiming a "New Generation of American Students...
...spite and malice one must now turn to P.J. O'Rourke, 40, a baby boomer who seems to have teethed on brass knuckles and suckled on bile. He is also one of the funniest writers in America, or anywhere else he may go to satisfy his desperate need to extract humor from folly and chaos...
Since the United States began drilling for petroleum, we have used 121 billion barrels. Today's technology can extract only about 27 billion more. If we develop more advanced extraction techniques, like recovering oil from shale, we can reach another 18-53 billion barrels...
...best description of Bellman and True is an oxymoron: it is, of all things, a dour caper. That is, a usually merry cinematic enterprise -- the one in which a group of swagmen laugh all the way to the supposedly impenetrable bank vault from which they intend to extract millions -- is shown with brutal realism...
Under strong domestic pressure to extract a commitment from the U.S. to / decrease acid rain, Mulroney lashed out at the Reagan Administration's wait- and-study attitude. "Friendship has inescapable costs," said he. "One of them is bearing whatever burdens are required to avoid polluting your neighbor's property." Although the two leaders will hold another summit later this month, Mulroney acknowledged that he must wait for Reagan's successor to see any results...