Word: oiled
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...quite different from most of the South. The town was defined by the Ingalls shipyard, which offered training and good wages and lured workers from all over the region. Most workers reckoned that whatever the state and local governments did to satisfy Ingalls--and the paper mill and the oil refinery and the shrimp-and crab-processing houses along the river--was money well spent...
...mathematician by training, Berezovsky, 51, entered private enterprise in the late 1980s by founding Logovaz, now Russia's largest car dealer. Today his interests include banking, oil, TV broadcasting and airlines. More than his peers, Berezovsky has used his now considerable wealth to make friends in high places: his financial support was crucial to Yeltsin's against-the-odds re-election last year...
...trial. Liu's leg was broken in the spectacle, and he later died of pneumonia in a makeshift prison in the city of Kaifeng. At the trial Red Guards decried Deng as a "capitalist roader," a "fascist" and a "traitor" and shouted, "Cook the dog's head in boiling oil!" Confronted by such rantings for hours on end, Deng simply removed his hearing aid. What saved him from Liu's fate, evidently, was a simple thing as well. While Mao had always despised the patrician Liu, he remembered with some affection his wartime adventures with Deng. Thus Mao declared...
...much truth is behind the hype? Dubious arthritis "remedies" in the past have included copper bracelets, bee venom and fish oil. What distinguishes this latest panacea is its mix of generally accepted measures--exercise, balanced diet, weight control, stress reduction--with uncritical advocacy of two over-the-counter dietary supplements available at pharmacies and health-food stores...
...PERSIAN GULF: An oil embargo, and the chance to make money off it, makes strange bedfellows. Case in point: Former mortal enemies Iraq and Iran, now working together to smuggle oil out of Iraq in defiance of the UN ban. The U.S. Navy has been monitoring a fleet of Iraqi ships that they believe are loaded with diesel fuel that travel down Iran's coast and use the country's territorial waters, where U.S. ships can not go, as cover before offloading at ports in Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Twice in recent weeks, U.S. Navy warships have been...