Word: gal
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...every time prices spike at the pump, whether because of turmoil in the Middle East, a lack of refinery capacity or old-fashioned opportunism in anticipation of a surge in demand. That's the scene now, with oil futures hitting record levels and gas prices averaging nearly $2 per gal. nationwide just as the summer driving season kicks off. If you just spent $75 to fill up your Chevy Suburban, you might even be one of those folks swearing they're gonna dump the hog for more of a fuel sipper...
Will hybrids go mainstream? Detroit economists are skeptical, arguing that it would take $4-per-gal. gas to significantly shift new-car buyers toward hybrids or other more fuel-efficient cars. The new hybrids will probably be priced a few thousand dollars above their conventional cousins; about $2,500 is typical now. (The Federal Government is offering a $1,500 tax deduction this year.) It's unclear whether consumers will want to spend the extra bucks if the fuel savings turn out to be minimal. But there's reason to believe that gas prices may not fall after the traditional...
...commanding officer. In the other rooms, on both sides of the 5-ft.-wide corridor, and even in the bathrooms, men sleep in their clothes, with their weapons, for as long as and whenever they can. There is no electricity, sanitation or water; ready-to-eat meals and 300 gal. of drinking water are brought in daily from the Marines' headquarters at Camp Fallujah, a dangerous 40-min. drive away...
...approaches the green fields of commencement, Gossip Guy has been getting really intimate with his pet bong, Billy Bong Thornton, leaving him little time for sharp-eyed observations on the nuanced social lives of Harvard idiots. Thankfully, his sober-er sister Gossip Gal is on the case with a little help from her friends. Together they bring you an incredible dose of clear-headed lies, pure-lunged rumors, and urine-test-passing innuendo...
According to sources now or previously engaged in, um, special relationships with members of certain Mt. Auburn St. social organizations, two such clubs are embroiled in a harrowing “identity crisis.” Gossip Gal, who hasn’t been inside either club since she was a prefrosh sleeping on Gossip Guy’s futon, knows one thing: the clubs’ members may no longer all be white, but the powder they shovel into their nostrils on a nightly basis certainly...