Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Social Security, which account for fully 50% of all federal spending, to keep right on growing. Medicare would continue to expand at more than three times the rate of inflation. So that family on the Clinton budget is in a strange situation -- it may be skimping on heating oil, but it is handing ever huger sums to the old folks next door...
...entered the U.S. Army believing you'd only fight to protect U.S. interests abroad, here's a new interest for you: saving the lives of innocent civilians. It doesn't matter whose lives, and it shouldn't. There's no oil in Bosnia, but there is something much more precious...
SWORD SWALLOWING MADE EASY (from a turn-of-the-century pamphlet): Use a peacock feather dipped in oil to tickle the throat, which helps you become familiar with the sensation. Swallow a rubber tube -- when the sword is swallowed, it will be encased in the tube. ((Make)) an imitation sword . . . out of licorice covered with tinfoil or aluminum paint; the licorice sword is swallowed and a real one produced from behind the back, giving "the impression the sword has passed entirely through you." Hire somebody to do it for you, as it may save you much annoyance...
...enthusiasts believe that assets like oil, timber and an industrious, literate population are the makings of another Asian miracle. Harder heads are skeptical, noting that the nation consolidated by Ho Chi Minh's heirs after the 1975 fall of Saigon is poverty-stricken and still at least partly under the thumb of ancient Marxists. Per capita income remains at $200 a year, one of the poorest in the world. Says Julian Reid, a director of Jardine Fleming Securities in Hong Kong: "In the medium to long term, Vietnam is extremely exciting. The short term is full of frustrations...
Nanagulian cited allegations in Britishnewspapers that an oil company, Mega Oil, isproviding money to the Azeris to carry...