Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recall one particular after-dinner tea when the women of Comstock Hall were dedicating a new oil painting over the mantel above a crackling fire. It was the portrait of Ida Louise Comstock, namesake of that specific dorm. A speaker recounted for the combined audience of Radcliffe and Harvard students some of the highlights of her inspiring life. Her image then joined those of the other illustrious women who graced the walls of this venerable room. In some quiet way, it served as an inspiration, not only to the young women, but to young men (like me) who would eventually...
...tells a gathering at a Beverly Hills hotel that they're spoiled by cheap labor, cheap oil and cheap sex. He tells black churchgoers to go easy on the malt liquor and give up on the "running back who stabbed his wife." He shocks a group of cosseted movie moguls by calling their product schlock...
...ranking official. But that charmed life seemed on the verge of imploding last week when two French judges drove to his sumptuous home near Bordeaux and formally placed the 75-year-old Dumas under investigation for corruption in connection with a wide-ranging probe of France's Elf Aquitaine oil company...
...breakthrough for the U.S. came at "the great pipeline shootout" on April 1 in Almaty, capital of Kazakhstan. More than 200 executives and experts from the region's oil consortiums gathered to present and compare their pet plans. To everyone's surprise, Total, the French oil giant, put forward revised numbers for its preferred option, a north-south pipeline through Iran to the gulf. By these new estimates, the Iran link would cost about $4 billion and would not be operational until 2004. This meant the line through Iran would cost as much and take as long to build...
...Despite the focus on strategic thinking, the final pipeline decision will depend heavily on costs. So U.S. officials were jubilant at Total's confession, and they got another boost last week. In a joint communique with Clinton, Niyazov affirmed that he was leaning toward an east-west gas-and-oil line under the Caspian as part of the larger system the U.S. is pushing. In October the huge consortium based in Baku is to decide which route it will support, and the Clinton Administration believes its side in this Great Game now has the momentum...