Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...statistics and new policies so shrewdly written up in the great, gray Washington buildings are people and families and the small cultures of communities that have gone on for four or five generations. It is particularly poignant with the family ranchers, not the King Ranch of almost 1 million oil- rich Texas acres or the Mormon church's Deseret Ranch in Florida, which runs 34,000 head of cattle. The big combines will survive. But the little guys are in jeopardy, a thin denim line of about 250,000 from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, leasing...
...group explained the use of condoms in the prevention of the spread of AIDS, the Mission Hill children nodded knowingly. A question about lubricant was answered unabashedly by a sixth-grader who cautioned his peers not to use oil based substances "like Crisco or Vaseline...
...have to wipe off stains on their hands before they can shake hands with Bill Clinton," says an Asian diplomat. "The paroles will help, but more are needed to do the trick." Perhaps dangling petrodollars might. China has opened up its remote but resource-rich inland areas to foreign oil companies, inviting U.S. oil firms to join the exploration of Xinjiang's Tarim Basin, an area as big as Texas...
...conflict escalated, the Azeris imposed a blockade on Armenia, cutting off oil and gas lines. A crucial gas pipeline in Georgia, the neighbor to the north -- where minority unrest also sputters unchecked -- was blown up this month for the third time, reducing the flow of gas to a trickle. Loans from Russia and some international aid that managed to bypass the blockade have saved Armenia from total collapse, but because of the power shortage only six of 400 factories are operating...
...TALK USED TO BE CONFINED TO NEW-AGE BOOKSTORES, health-food shops and holistic magazines printed on whole-grain paper. But alternative medicine has now gone slickly mainstream: the subject of TV talk shows, best sellers and even an Oscar-nominated film, Lorenzo's Oil. This veritable flowering -- or plague -- of holism is almost always presented with wide-eyed enthusiasm and a hefty dose of conventional-medicine bashing. Critics of alternative healing are just as narrow-minded: these therapies are unscientific, they say, and therefore cannot work...