Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oil-rich...
...announcing itself in his watercolor drawing of a Jewish bride in Tangier, whose costume, in all its fantastic profusion of embroidery, overlays and gold jewelry, is suggested in a few washes of pink, vermilion, blue and yellow. He developed it to full pitch in the oil paintings he did later in his Paris studio. It would lead to the packed density of pattern-on-pattern in Women of Algiers (1834) and receive its homages from both Matisse and Picasso...
...misfortune is that it happened to a country that up until a year ago gave all the signs of being on a durable winning streak. Mexico has steadily climbed out of the debris of the debt crisis of the early 1980s, when a dip in the price of oil, its most valuable export, left the nation unable to pay its bills. For years afterward Mexico was a dirty word to foreign investors, who left it to starve for development capital. Rebuilding credibility required a long stretch of austerity and the sale of inefficient state operations like banks and telephone companies...
...million-bbl. oil spill would be bad anywhere, but the pipeline leak in the Russian Arctic in October was especially unfortunate. The harsh weather makes it hard for wildlife to survive in any case, and sluggish cleanup efforts virtually guaranteed an ecological disaster. Worse yet, there is a lot more dilapidated pipeline in the area...
...Oil has been discovered underneath the manicured lawns of Windsor Castle, the weekend retreat of the British royal family. Her Majesty gave permission to sink an exploratory well to test the reserves, which experts say could be worth more than $1 billion. Lest antimonarchists get outraged, any profits would be split by the state and the participating oil company...