Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million-member National Labor Congress joined oil workers in Nigeria for two days in their month-old strike to try to topple the country's military government. Five people died in the unrest, including two marchers shot when police fired on a peaceful crowd...
Driving from Murtala Muhammed Airport into downtown Lagos normally requires at least two hours. Last week it took barely 30 minutes: what traffic there was in the largest metropolis of one of the world's major oil producers bunched up at the few gas stations that still had fuel. Around those that had none, lines of abandoned vehicles fanned out in all directions. The effect was eerie, as if a neutron bomb had been dropped in the middle of the most populous country in Africa...
...largest investment fund in Russia, but about 600 other funds, along with countless phony companies that sell stock themselves, continue doing business. Economists are worried that some will soon fold. A few have already blazed the way. Last spring, for example, the operators of the Independent Oil Co. simply disappeared after collecting $3.8 million from investors in exchange for promises of fat profits after just three months...
...legislation, soon to come before the Senate, also provides $15 million for medical research and $50 million for counseling for Gulf War veterans and their families. More than 700 U.S. troops have reported symptoms that include fatigue, hair loss and intestinal and respiratory problems. Suspected causes include the oil fires set by Iraqi forces in Kuwait during the 1991 war and immunizations given by the U.S. Army for protection against gas warfare...
...these is Germany: unification has required it to borrow tens of billions of dollars abroad to rebuild its eastern sector. In Japan a severe recession and the collapse of the country's financial markets have forced banks and companies to all but halt new overseas investments. And oil-rich Arab states like Saudi Arabia, which once exported capital, are borrowing heavily to finance arms purchases in the wake of the Gulf...