Word: gerald
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...main long-term danger to the U.S. is increased reliance on foreign oil. Many business leaders and politicians have taken note that ultralow oil prices are threatening to stunt domestic production. Gerald Greenwald, vice chairman of Chrysler, sees the peril of another oil shock. Says he: "We've been burned twice before, and we see the elements of No. 3 taking shape." ... The oil bust has spoiled the economics of alternative energy as well. Many of the ballyhooed 1970s-era programs to extract petroleum from oil shale and tar sands have been mothballed because they cost too much to operate...
...Member of the National Rifle Association (NRA)—one of only 19 individuals to earn that honor in the NRA’s 133-year history—was instrumental in lobbying members of congress to pass the original ban in 1994. On June 14, 2004, Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton sent a letter to George W. Bush urging him to renew the ban. Add in the tacit support of President George H.W. Bush who took the initial steps in protecting Americans from these weapons by banning the importation of certain assault rifles...
Departing Anglican Bishop of the Goldfields Gerald Beaumont had two pieces of advice before handing over his 330,000-sq.-km diocese to Tom Wilmot in February this year: "cruise control and reading books." To these, Wilmot, 53, might add Shoo Roo, the device fitted to bush vehicles to scare away kangaroos with ultrasonic sounds. For an area stretching from Esperance on the Southern Ocean to Eneabba northwest of Perth and across to the South Australian border, he'll be needing Shoo Roo. As Wilmot puts it, such distances are "unimaginable, with apparently nothing in between." But six months into...
...SHAG LOOK Long hair was hot when Jimmy Carter won the Democratic nomination in 1976. His restrained shag handily bested Gerald Ford's thinning...
...Harvard Medical School area. He also acted as a bodyguard to several dignitaries, including recently-deceased Loeb University professor emeritus Archibald Cox ’34 while he acted as special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal, Britain’s Prince Charles, members of the Kennedy family and presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush...