Word: newfoundlands
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Worldwide, the shortage has sparked more of an exploration than a production upswing. Spurred on by voracious demand and fat prices, such oil giants as Exxon, Mobil and Texaco, along with a host of smaller firms, are scouring the earth from Malaysia to Newfoundland for fresh finds. Next month, activity in Peru's Amazon River jungle will reach boom tempo as Union Oil, Tenneco, Getty, Sun Oil, Transworld and other companies begin drilling for what many geologists believe is the world's largest unexplored oil deposit. The most promising recent strikes have been under the turbulent waters...
Untamed Play. Millions of other fans from the Yukon to Newfoundland will slow down their own parties long enough to watch the game on TV. They may be joined by American viewers who stumble on the Grey Cup while switching channels to catch American Thanksgiving weekend games...
Barakat, an anthropologist at Newfoundland's Memorial University, recently gathered a dictionary of gestures from throughout the Arab world and was able to give specific definitions to no fewer than...
...practice in 1941 to become Minister of Justice in the wartime Liberal government of Mackenzie King. As his country's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, St. Laurent oversaw a period of unprecedented growth and expansion. Canada's gross national product -sparked by American investment-nearly doubled, Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province, and the country took an increasingly large role as an "honest broker" in international affairs...
When Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill signed the original eight-point Atlantic Charter* aboard the U.S. cruiser Augusta off the Newfoundland coast in August 1941, Hitler's tanks had seized North Africa, and Japan was preparing its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Kissinger's new charter will be written-if it appears at all-in a less dangerous but infinitely more slippery time of prosperity and détente...