Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sanction that would most undercut the Kim regime is also the most provocative: an oil embargo. North Korea imports almost 75% of its petroleum products from China. If oil were cut off, the army would stop running. But China frowns on sanctions of any sort, and would hardly agree to halt the petroleum flow. Even if Beijing ordered a cutoff, Chinese businessmen along the long border are doing such a profitable business with North Korea that they might be inclined to ignore the embargo order...
...have come together if the sanctions that preceded the conflict had not invested America and its partners with a common sense of frustration at Baghdad's refusal to budge in the absence of force. The need to repel Iraq was appreciated because the world wanted the Middle East's oil at affordable prices and didn't want Saddam brandishing weapons of mass destruction. Today the nightmare scenarios of nuclear-weapons proliferation and regional instability in Asia may soon be seen to justify a second Korean war. If so, the alliance required to prosecute that battle will be impossible to craft...
Benton's crew took their B-17 bomber on 35daytime missions over Germany in late 1944. Theybombed cities with "oil production facilities orfactories" such as Magdeburg and Schweinfurt, hesays...
Fallows dismisses Tokyo's current economic downturn as nothing more than a temporary setback, similar to those that followed the huge boost in oil prices in 1972 and the rapid appreciation of the yen in 1985. Both times the Japanese economy came back leaner and, Fallows believes, meaner than ever. Now, he says, Japan and East Asia will present an overwhelming challenge to the U.S. Although the U.S. remains the world's largest (and still most productive) national economy, Fallows predicts that unless it adopts a more interventionist national economic policy and consumes less while saving more, it will...
...handful of wealthy families who directly or indirectly support the junta maintain their near monopolies on items exempted from the blockade, such as cooking oil, rice and sugar -- and are profiting handsomely. The Brandts control the market in flour, which shot up from $43 to $50 a sack, and have a corner on the country's chicken industry. The Mevs family continues to add on to a fuel depot capable of holding 50 million gal. Their cement business is booming as black-market millionaires build new homes. The Madsens are doing big business in humanitarian food at their shipping terminal...