Word: oiled
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This energy costs environmentally: Generating electricity involves burning fossil fuels or running a nuclear reactor or hydroelectric plant. These processes can result in many forms of pollution: acid mine drainage, oil spills, natural gas leakage, toxic waste and air pollutants. Energy efficient lighting can decrease the amount of energy needed to meet lighting electricity demand by more than 50 percent...
...amount were still unresolved, the choices had apparently narrowed to either an ad valorem levy, essentially a sales tax on the wholesale price of fuel, or a BTU (British thermal unit) tax based on the heat content of fuel. Either would apply to every kind of energy -- coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear and hydroelectric power -- and for every use -- running cars and trains, heating homes, firing factory boilers, generating electricity. A 5% ad valorem tax would raise about $18 billion a year over the next five years. A BTU tax, which Clinton is said to lean toward, could be tailored...
...year for singles and $200,000 for families. Congress has already voted a 10% surcharge on $1 million-plus incomes that Clinton will happily sign. Under his plans, the alternative minimum tax on people who get high incomes from sources sheltered from ordinary taxes -- partnership investments in real estate, oil and natural gas, for example -- would probably be raised to 28%, from 24% now. And the President called businessmen to the White House last week partly to tell them to their face that he intends to raise taxes on their company profits. The corporate income tax is supposed...
...years as President, he was hailed as an exemplar of the new breed of postcolonial African leader. He brought a fragile unity to his country, built schools and hospitals and forged a nonaligned approach to foreign policy. But as Zaire reeled under his economic mismanagement, compounded by the 1973 oil shock and a sharp drop in the price of copper exports, Mobutu resorted to calamitous improvisation. Following a trip to China, he launched a showy "authenticity" campaign designed to reduce Western influence and return his country to its African roots. Many foreign assets were nationalized, giving Mobutu tighter control over...
...literally exploded out of my head. A comic strip called The Collective Intelligence of Crisco. Yeah. It would be a strip revolving around a twisted love triangle of the sentient, sexy vat of vegetable shortening, named Cris, a sensitive stick of Mazola margerine and the lovely Florence Henderson, Wesson oil spokesmodel. In addition to working through their various affairs of the heart, they would spend every free moment tirelessly fighting to free the world of lard...