Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While shellfish can be avoided, peanuts and peanut products, including some forms of peanut oil, are ubiquitous in foods, showing up unrecognized in such items as chili, stews and meat patties. Canadian businessman Paul Motz has learned to be wary -- and prepared. With seven severe reactions already in his medical dossier, he always carries a vial of the hormone epinephrine (for relaxing bronchial muscles and jump-starting the heart). He also has a supply of cards to hand out to waiters, each bearing the warning "I have an acute allergy to peanuts. Any contact could kill me immediately. Please double...
...archipelago's 30 inhabitable islands boast a per capita income of $30,000, as compared with the U.S. per capita rate of $22,000. If the upside has meant a VCR in every home, the downside is a threat to the area's cherished isolation, as tourists, developers and oil speculators take notice of the archipelago's rich resources...
...Ambassador to Moscow ROBERT STRAUSS has jumped into a dispute over Russian-built Kamov and Mil helicopters, by lobbying the Bush Administration on their behalf. The powerful Russian choppers can outlift the best U.S. helicopters and are being offered to American oil and logging firms at half price. U.S. manufacturers are livid because Strauss wants the FAA to waive the costly and time-consuming U.S. commercial-certification process for the Russian competition. If the FAA goes along with Strauss, the heavy lifters may start hauling timber in Alaska this summer...
...superpowers and the U.S.'s principal trading partners were also its military allies, united in the common cause of opposing the Soviet threat. As recently as three years ago, the U.S. and the West Europeans would have found a way to finesse their current dispute over cereals and seed oil...
...first week of U.N.-imposed economic sanctions did nothing to halt the fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Serb forces have seized more than two- thirds of the territory and are bombarding the capital, Sarajevo. But the cutoff of trade, including oil, did make officials in the rump state of Yugoslavia squirm publicly...