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...producers to put more crude on the market, which will start to bring prices down." The last time the government announced it was unloading oil from the SPR, in April 1996, petroleum-futures prices plummeted nearly 8% almost immediately and the cost of gasoline soon dropped 10[cents] per gal...
...much as the next gal, I doubt that *anyone* appreciates such crude...
...hustle and bustle of trying to get your hands on the last elusive syllabus you can't help but bump into a few lookers. In large classes you can see these students busily scanning, not the reading list, but the crowd, hoping to spot that cute guy or gal they never had time to search out after section last semester...
Soon after leading the first European crossing of the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, explorer Gregory Blaxland was back on his New South Wales farm, tending his vines. By 1822 he had sufficient confidence in his winemaking skills to submit a quarter-pipe (about 37 gal.) of red wine for assessment by the London-based Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. The society's judges awarded him a silver medal--and five years later a gold medal--for a wine they described with tepid enthusiasm as having "much the odor and flavor of ordinary claret...
...they are suddenly plunged into an aquatic research center lined with industrial-steel walls and exposed pipes. There they can park themselves in a yellow submarine once used for deep-sea exploration or watch wet-suited guides equipped with scuba gear investigate a simulated shipwreck in an 85,000-gal. tank...