Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason for the fighting in Chechnya is, pure and simple, control of an oil supply line critical to the economy of Russia. Russia relies heavily on its exports of natural resources such as oil and timber to bring in hard currency from the West. It needs these resources if it is to have any hope of rebuilding its economy and maintaining its fragile democracy. The independence issue is a backdrop to what Yeltsin reckons to be the higher national interest of preserving the oil supply and thus preserving any progress made by the new democratic Russia. Isn't Yeltsin merely...
...should have done all the work during the semester, and left my bathing suit and tanning oil back home, and taken my economics textbook instead...
...rejected it as a likely prelude to all-out war in the Korean Peninsula. "That would involve the deployment of hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, and that would involve a full-scale -- full-scale -- war," Perry said. Christopher assured the senators that the nuclear agreement -- which trades U.S. oil and Asian nuclear reactors for an end to Pyongyang's own nuclear program -- left no room for trust: "This is not going to be a relaxed situation for many years to come...
...nothing wackier than this bombshell from the Major League Cabal: Oil Can Boyd is back as the first major-league scab, after crossing the picket line to sign with the White Sox organization...
...face, that seems fine. If we must have lobbyists, they might as well represent regular people, not just oil barons. The trouble is that regular people, like oil barons, are usually asking for money, whether in the form of crop subsidies for farmers, tax breaks for shopkeepers, Medicare or Social Security payments, or various other benefits. So the increasingly "democratic" face of interest groups means the American government is asked to pay more, which means finally Americans of all classes are too. And the ultimate cost could be larger still. The budget deficit is not only a grave problem...