Word: oiled
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...many other things, Lindsey predicted that the Soviet Union would invade Israel and that, after millions of the righteous were gathered up in the eschatological event known as the "rapture," Jesus would descend from the heavens to preside over the real New World Order. In his 1974 book Armageddon, Oil and the Middle East Crisis, John F. Walvoord projected his vision: "Destruction on a formerly incomprehensible scale is clearly predicted for the end time in the book of Revelation and may be the result of nuclear war." Evangelist Pat Robertson has said that in the millennial age the saved will...
...first rule of forecasting should be that the unforeseen keeps making the future unforeseeable. In the 1890s it was widely predicted that the U.S. would be bare of trees by the 1920s -- they would all have been chopped down to provide wood for heating and cooking. Along came oil burners and the gas stove, saving the trees to be menaced instead by acid rain...
...Beers cope? "As long as you have cartels, there will be cheating, whether it is diamonds or oil," says Steve Oke, an analyst with the British brokerage house Smith New Court. "The question is whether they can contain the cheating." Although industry analysts believe De Beers will weather the crisis because it has deep pockets and rich affiliates, investors are not convinced. When the company abruptly announced the likelihood of a 25% dividend cut in August, its stock fell nearly 15% and triggered a minicrash on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange...
Other results exceeded HMC's internal performance benchmark in every category except commodities investments--including volatile oil and gas holdings--which showed a negative rate of return of 33.5 percent, Meyer said...
Haley said that his inspector had found nothing unusual and cited oil from passing motorboats as a possible cause of any visible pollutant. "They saw nothing, smelled nothing," he said...