Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrators are demanding specific changes in tax policy, including increasing taxes on capital gains, plugging up tax loopholes like the oil depletion allowance, and criminating the taxation of families below the federally-determined poverty level...
...supporting U.S. policies, and, on the other hand, a picture that did indeed resemble roses. My one question that could have helped was about the members of the Center's visiting committee. It includes the former Ambassadors to England and Belgium, the Vice President and Director of Standard Oil, a former Secretary of the Treasury and Under Secretary of State, the President of Bell Telephone, the President of Itek, the former director of the CIA, and the President of Radio Free Europe. I had learned enough about imperialism during the last three years to suspect that the members...
...Clark continued. "The average American female I think feels she's quite clean. She takes lots of showers and baths and uses bath oil and all that. It isn't until this is brought to her attention that she might have vaginal odor or does have vaginal odor that [she realizes] there's one area she hasn't taken care...
...left BP "with an oilfield at one end of the country, a market at the other, and Sohio in the middle." Sohio, which has some 3,500 gas stations in the Midwest, is renowned for its refining and marketing organization, but it has not had access to enough crude oil to permit expansion. So the companies .agreed to have Sohio take over BP's U.S. marketing, with BP supplying Alaskan crude and ultimately acquiring a 54% interest in Sohio for a price of about $1 billion. The ingenious deal, like BP's earlier purchase of the Sinclair stations...
...reason was that in those years, premium rates of much of the insurance business -with the exception of long-term life, which Lloyd's does not carry -were unrealistic. The rates failed to keep pace with soaring repair costs and the proliferation of bigger jet aircraft and giant oil tankers. "Inflation and technological revolutions all caught up with the underwriters," says Lloyd's Chairman Henry S. Mance...