Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MATEP's cogeneration, principally its recaptureof hot exhaust form the diesel engines, allows itto produce 30 percent more energy perequivalentgallon of oil than normal electric power plants...
Harvard graduates entered the art world from all different directions. There are a number of art professors and historians, curators, restorers, as well as full-time artists in a variety of media--pottery, oil painting and sculpture...
...Italian cooking what the crabby-looking servant girl grinding aioli in Diego Velazquez's Kitchen Scene with Christ in the House of Martha and Mary was to the sumptuous nudes of Titian or Veronese. A modern palate would recoil at the eggs slowly frying, or rather poaching, in oil on top of a clay stove in Velazquez's An Old Woman Cooking Eggs. But what an amazing act of skill the picture itself is, done in 1618 by a 19-year-old boy who wanted to display his total control over surface texture, form and light, from the transparency...
...Russians are in a strong bargaining position, but they could become too pliable in the face of Iran's vast oil wealth. To make Russia's decision easier, the U.N. should offer extra financial incentives to Russia in return for a contract prohibiting non-U.N.-approved transfers of nuclear equipment. In this case, prevention is worth the price...
...problem of the budget deficit is an attack on welfare. Not the welfare that is normally attacked under the guise of reform, that which offers payments to poor women and children, but the welfare offered to big corporations in tall glass buildings: corporate welfare. These subsidies place powerful agribusiness, oil and gas corporations on the public dole, along with a plethora of other companies and individuals. It has been estimated by think tanks on both the left and right that the elimination of these subsidies could save hundreds of billions of dollars...