Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move back a couple of feet, that same patch has become a glistening silver embroidery on rose velvet. All of Close's art recalls his fixation on this effect, the brain seeking illusion in pattern, questing for clues: Close will break a face down into round dabs of oil paint (as in Self-Portrait, 1986), or spots of pastel, or even thickly textured platelets of papier-mache glued on top of one another, looking to extend the ways in which repetitive, grid-organized painting turns into the irresistible semblance of a face. All the time, the surface gets richer...
Biggest blunders: Teapot Dome oil-leasing scandal; other instances of Administration graft...
Beren left Ohio to attend Harvard in 1943. After serving in World War II, he completed his studies at the college, and later graduated as a Baker Scholar from the Business School. He is currently the owner and president of BEREXCO INC., a oil and gas exploration company based in Kansas. He also serves as president of Beren Corp. and is owner of Central Crude Corp...
Haven?t we heard this somewhere before? ?It cannot sink,? promised Walter Navratil, president of White Star Line Ltd., of his plans to build a full-scale, $500 million oil-fueled replica of the Titanic. The company, itself a U.S.-Swiss replica of the original Anglo-American White Star line, plans to have the steamer ready for the 90th anniversary of the original Titanic voyage, in April 2002. And at between $10,000 and $100,000 a ticket, the ship is once again likely to be stuffed with the cream of transatlantic aristocracy...
Governments have decided that they have sufficiently secured their sovereignty. Now what they focus on is revenues. That is why many governments are withdrawing from business and privatizing all or part of their state-owned oil companies. Those that are not are being put on a firm commercial footing. From Algeria to Venezuela, countries that were formerly closed to exploration and production by foreign companies are reopening their doors. This hardly means the disappearance of politics and security issues--the Persian Gulf War demonstrates that--but these are not the day-to-day drivers anymore. So even though OPEC governments...