Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father Clyde worked in the oil fields; his mother Lucille owned a beauty-shop. They married and divorced twice, with Lucille gaining custody of the boy after she accused Clyde of haranguing her in drunken rages. Their son has a more settled sense of self: "I'm a family man. I have two children, a wife. I'm in the cattle business. I'm an actor. I've made my living with my imagination all my adult life. And I hope to continue to grow every...
...blighted hopes of the Thomas family reflect the failure of a nation whose oil wealth and industrious people once promised to make it black Africa's first world power. Decades of misrule by the military has wrecked the country, which is sliding into the worst crisis since the civil war of the 1960s claimed 1 million lives. Much of the nation's wealth has been squandered through lavish government spending whose main effect is to create new opportunities for kickbacks. Food has grown so expensive that even a university lecturer who earns 10 times the average annual wage...
...SOME, THE SHAME OF BEING NIGErian has cut so deep that they are willing to contemplate what almost everyone in this fiercely proud country would have previously dismissed as unthinkable: inviting outside interference. The Campaign for Democracy has called for an international boycott of Nigerian oil until a democratic government takes office, even though that would push the economy into an even deeper slough. "We were advocates of total economic sanctions in South Africa, and we believe the sanctions were the main reason why apartheid is giving way to democracy there," says Chima Ubani, the Campaign for Democracy's general...
...brave words mask major weaknesses in the pro-democracy movement. International oil customers, hesitant to offend an influential supplier or harm their own recession-plagued economies, are not likely to embargo Nigerian crude. More fundamentally, democracy leaders have been unable to overcome the ethnic rivalries that have stood in the way of a true sense of Nigerian nationhood since its creation. Support is strong in the Yoruba-dominated southwest and almost nil in other parts of the country...
...coming 'round the other side of the mountains is a disappointed family fleeing with relief back to the urban energy of the Pacific Coast, right? Wrong. On the other side is Peter Northrop, 38, a Connecticut-born Chevron oil computer programmer in Denver. In July 1992, Northrop was given 48 hours to agree to a transfer to San Ramon, California, about 30 miles east of Oakland. He and his wife Susan, 37, agonized and then opted to stay put in Denver with their two small children. It took Northrop four months to land a new job with Diners Club...