Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Louis must simultaneously deal with his mother's $22 million inheritance from an ethically questionable chemical company once operated by his grandfather. Fuel to the fire comes in the form of a peculiar series of earthquakes which are beginning to threaten the New England area. And if that weren't enough, Renee--an older, unattractive, brilliant and insecure Harvard seismologist with strong feminist tendencies, whom Louis finds himself falling reluctantly in love with--discovers that these turbulent terrestrial tremors could very well be the result of the avaricious and corrupt conduct of Louis' grandfather and his cohorts...
Unfortunately for the Harvard fans, the Crimson was dangerously low on fuel...
...hemisphere-wide economic embargo, malnutrition and disease have spread at a rate well beyond the usual disquieting norm. In rural areas, hungry peasant farmers eat the seeds they should be planting. Twenty miles from the capital, immunization programs have been curtailed, a casualty of government efforts to conserve fuel that make refrigeration of vaccines impossible. As a result, children are dying of measles. Yet in the slums, people do not complain of physical hardship; they speak instead of spiritual malnourishment. "Titid gave us dignity and hope," says a barefoot man, referring to Aristide by his popular nickname. "Keep the embargo...
...fuel delivery company spilled 3,000 gallons of oil in the basement of a building at the Harvard Graduate School of Education early Wednesday morning, school officials said yesterday...
...been a glorious few weeks. It's been a time in which the once (and probably still) impossible hope of a Democratic win has actually looked plausible. Still, amid the stupidity and humor of Bush's difficulties--the very fuel of those hopes--there's more at stake. Some profound changes for our politics--or at least long-lasting trends--lurk underneath the quirky fissures in Bush's support network...