Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NEWS ON OLIVE OIL...
...Dallas of Big Oil and Big Football and Big Everything, assassination included, is now the big bloody shoot-'em-up video-game production center of the world...
...does not exaggerate. That skyscraper, one of the most prestigious in town, has a full tank of old money and gray suits, which is to say, oil has been very, very good to Dallas. The place crawls with bankers and lawyers and investment drones, and the ones with the biggest spurs can take the elevator up to the 39th floor and sip Jack Daniels at the Petroleum Club...
...great-grandfather Johann Christoph Jardin was a whaler. Born in Germany, he was a cooper by training, making barrels aboard ship to hold the whale oil gathered by men who spent months, even years, roaming the seas. He sailed out of New Bedford, Mass., in the late 1840s. When his ship was wrecked in the Arctic a decade later, those who made it to shore survived the cold by stomping back and forth across the frozen tundra. My father remembers Christoph (as he called himself) telling him how his hair turned white overnight. Eventually they were rescued and taken...
...last spring, when, during a seasonal campaign against corruption, Yeltsin decreed that all government officials should declare their incomes and holdings. Intended to increase transparency at the highest levels of power and build public trust, the decree had the opposite effect. Nearly all the declared incomes were absurd. The oil-and-media tycoon BORIS BEREZOVSKY, then deputy secretary of the Security Council, put his net worth at $38,500. And just how transparent is Yeltsin being? Last year he explained that his income was modest (largely derived from royalties on his memoirs), but not to worry, the state covers most...