Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complaints from this corner. Why, I still had work to do. I noticed that his T-shirt and jeans were streaked with oil and grease, but he did not mind...
...mammoth BP-Amoco merger is a sign that there's still money to be made in the depressed global oil market -- but only on the back of heavy sacrifice. BP's $48 billion acquisition of Amoco will see about 6,000 jobs slashed in Cleveland and Houston. "With oil prices weak, the only way for companies to remain profitable is to cut their costs," says Fortune correspondent Nelson Schwartz. "Exxon and other companies have actually boosted their profits despite the depressed market by improving their efficiency." The merger will allow BP and Amoco to remain competitive by pursuing an economy...
Your statement that Nigeria is a country where "everything but misery is in short supply" is an insult. Nigeria is not as bad as the Western press portrays it. I hold America partly responsible for Nigeria's problems. If the U.S. had placed an embargo on Nigerian oil, the billions of dollars in revenues siphoned off by the military bosses would not have been available. And the much-talked-about Nigerian financial scams are done with the active connivance of greedy and selfish Americans. OTIOCHA E. ELEAZAR San Francisco...
...leader KIM JONG IL is pushing the construction of a new reactor--underground to confound U.S. spy satellites--and trying to design usable atom bombs, possibly including missile warheads. Other analysts disagree; some Clinton Administration officials think hard-liners are leaking these reports to choke off congressional support for oil shipments to North Korea, which the U.S. pledged to fund in 1994 as part of a deal that shut down Pyongyang's known nuclear program. Even if the bad news is true, the new reactor is not expected to generate more bombmaking material for several years. But if North Korea...
...recent years, studies have hinted that olive oil could prevent breast cancer. A new study measuring oleic acid--the oil's chief component--in women, rather than relying on their reports of what they ate, shows no protective effect from the acid. But the oil's cardiovascular benefits still make it a healthy choice...