Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undergraduates, we were constricted by parietal rules. We wore skirts to classes (except in Cambridge blizzards and when the oil shortage became acute) and hats and gloves to teas. We never smoked on the street (the only place you can, now, as one classmate has pointed out). The college food was terrible, running to all-white fish and potato and cauliflower meals, and Halloween salads of shredded carrots and raisins. Sweet sherry was the beverage of choice for fancy functions...
Gelbspan called American scientists who question the validity of global warming "pawns of the massive oil and coal industries" because they accept research grants from large oil and coal companies...
...topsy-turvy response reflects the fact that Iraq won't begin exporting oil until July, when gas-guzzling American vacationers galore will be hitting the road. Nor will the 700,000 bbl. a day that Baghdad will be allowed to sell to raise hard currency for food and medicine amount to more than a 1% boost in worldwide oil production. Nonetheless, experts say Iraqi oil should help lower U.S. pump prices by midsummer. Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, estimates that gas prices could fall as much as 10' per gal. before the end of the driving season...
Iraq is finally cooperating well enough with United Nations monitoring to be allowed to sell oil for food and medicine. Hearing that news, I couldn't help wondering whether I should have been able to predict some movement toward flexibility in Baghdad when I noticed an Associated Press item last March that began, "Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has ordered an end to the practice of cutting off the ears of army deserters and draft dodgers...
...partly a pro-democracy movement of the majority of the population demanding increased representation. It is also partly religious, wanting to some extent to establish a more Islamic state." The Shiite dissatisfaction has been fueled by economic inequities. Unlike its Gulf neighbors, Bahrain is not a major oil-exporting country, and the declines in oil prices have had a major economic impact on an already restless population. "Adding to the economic disaffection, the Gulf war brought with it greater expectation for democracy," says MacLeod. "This has inspired opposition movements demanding the restoration of parliament, which was dissolved in 1975, just...