Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to blame Big Oil. It has given us precious little to work with in the past couple of years, save the occasional assault on the environment. Indeed, the price of oil and gas just kept falling, as did industry profits. But Big Oil, the profitmongering version we love to lambaste, is back in form, courtesy of gasoline prices rising geyser-like to more than $2 per gal. in some places. "Gasoline prices are outrageous; my bill has gone up about $20 a month," complains Debra Davis, a San Francisco school-district employee, as she stares in dismay at prices...
...John may have got a bigger cash inheritance from family patriarch Joseph Kennedy than from their parents. For anyone outside the inner family circle, and possibly to some inside, Kennedy family finances can only be guesswork. This much is known: through speculation in movies, liquor importing, the stock market, oil and real estate, Joseph Kennedy had amassed an estimated $300 million by 1963. Guesses as to the total Kennedy family wealth that this fortune has blossomed into today run anywhere from $1.5 billion to $3 billion. True, it has been divided among swarms of children, grandchildren and in-laws...
DIED. STAVROS NIARCHOS, 86, last of the "Golden Greek" tycoons, famed for his wealth ($4 billion in shipping, real estate, oil), women (six marriages to five women) and rivalry with Aristotle Onassis; in Zurich...
...Curry, "Is that, even though the grain itself is only 18 cents of the $3.39 retail price they pay for corn flakes, they may soon find themselves paying more for chicken, pork, soft drinks (made with high fructose corn syrup), pastries, vitamins (such as Vitamin E made from soybean oil), ethanol, and other products...
...many know the true history of the struggle? According to Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and former Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59, the first strong impetus for this change came during the early 1970s--but not from the students. Alarmed by rising oil prices in the wake of the OPEC shortage, many U.S. colleges decided January was just too expensive a month to run heating equipment. So they gave students the month off. Harvard debated the matter and decided against switching--but the seeds of change had been planted in undergraduates' minds...