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...South Africa, as well as the governments of all those countries except Britain. Gulf Oil, the only known American participant, was represented through a Canadian subsidiary. The cartel existed only from 1972 to 1975, but it cashed in on a bonanza that would make an OPEC oil minister jealous: during those three years, world "yellowcake" prices zoomed from less than $6 per Ib. to about $42, where they have since remained...
...have here...like Eastport, Perry, Pembroke, Calais, Machias... now after you pass Machias, the people have accepted us as Indians, who are cultured, intelligent, self-sufficient. But the near neighbors, they take us as dirt." Moore explains why: "As far as I can see, these near neighbors are jealous. Due to the fact that they...oh, I don't know...
Usually deadlier than the professional torch is the psychopathic amateur who burns once for strictly personal reasons such as jealousy or revenge. A federal study puts 55% of adult arsonists in the burn-for-hate category. In New York, a jealous suitor and two friends have been charged with setting a fire last year in a Puerto Rican social club in the South Bronx. Twenty-five party-goers died in the blaze. The alleged motive: the man's girl friend had attended the party against his wishes. Says Donald Mershon, manager of the Metropolitan Chicago Loss Bureau, which handles...
Susan Waxenberg '78 says, "I'm sometimes jealous of people who say with a smirk 'I'm not writing a thesis,'" but she adds that she hopes her thesis, on barriers to entry in the fast foods industry, will be for her "part of the growing up you do at Harvard...
...Callas is constitutionally unable to fit into any organization not tailored to her own personality." By 1965 almost all was forgiven. Bing brought her back for two Toscas. Justly they became the hottest tickets of the season, for Callas' Tosca was revelatory, not so much a posturing, jealous bitch, as a woman unsettled by fear and made crafty by the desire to save her lover...