Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor administrator and weak boss, Aref bore the additional stigma of last year's defeat in the Six-Day War with Israel. He offended many citizens by decreeing further delays in Iraq's decade-long "transition" from military rule to parliamentary democracy, seemed unable to get the oil-rich economy moving. Chief among those who wished to bring about a change in stagnating Iraq were the members of the right-leaning but revolutionary Baath party, who had not tasted power since Abdul Salem Aref booted them out of his government late...
...familiar source of heat and power in countries as widely separated as Italy, Iceland and New Zealand. The renewed interest in the U.S. springs from a growing population's need for more electricity. In some areas, geothermal steam offers a cheap, ready-made alternative to coal, oil and nuclear fuels, and it leaves no pollutants in the air. At The Geysers, steam-driven turbines produce 58,000 kw. of electricity at a cost 23% below that of nearby conventional generating plants; in a few years, the area could be producing almost 20 times as much...
...flamboyant carnival tycoon who made more than $1,000,000 building amusement parks in Europe and Australia, Reddin was born in New York City. The family moved to Holdenville, Okla., when his father scented more money in petroleum than suckers-and suckered himself into penury. "While Indians were discovering oil under just about every campfire pit," observes Reddin, "Dad managed to drill more dry holes than anyone else in the history of Oklahoma." When Reddin was eight, the family traveled on to Denver, where he stayed through high school, racked up straight A's and lettered in basketball, baseball...
...several other firm loan applications are in the works. Ceylon will shortly sign for a loan to improve tea production, Taiwan wants $5,000,000 for a fishing fleet, and Indonesia would like $150 million to increase food production. Malaysia has applied to ADB for a loan to build oil-palm mills, and two weeks ago the bank signed a technical-assistance agreement with the Philippines under which ADB will send five experts to see what can be done about the Philippine rice crop. Only 21% of the land, according to an ADB study, is now irrigable in wet seasons...
Heat makes you think of cool, of getting out of this place. You can go to Crane's Beach, which is good, or Revere Beach, which is bad because the water is slick with oil and is streaked with something that is reddish brown and looks very bad. You can go to Cape Cod, which is good if you know somebody. Or you can go to Maine, which is probably just as hot as it is here anyway...