Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Didn't Die: When the oil refinery closed down in 1982, this boomtown went bust--22,000 of its 30,000 residents moved away, J.C. Penney and other retailers shut down, and arsonists torched parts of downtown. But in 1986 it joined the Main Street program, began renovating 200 buildings and cashed in on the "heritage tourism" craze (Okmulgee is the capital of the Muskogee Indian Nation...
...know no bounds. When UNICEF announced last week that a million Iraqi children have suffered from malnutrition under seven years of the embargo, Saddam acted to make their plight worse. He said he was uninterested in renewing an arrangement that allows Iraq to sell $2 billion worth of oil every six months to buy food and medicine. Instead, he demands that all sanctions...
Looking beyond land mines, Parish foresees Omnitech technology being used in all sorts of repetitive and dangerous tasks--moving ore or tailings in a mine, hauling toxic wastes from an old dump, fighting oil-field fires. Omnitech is talking with Barbados and Jamaica about rigging vehicles used for dock transport in loading and unloading ships...
CHELSEA, Mass.--Three years ago this city hidden among the oil tanks and container yards of Boston's inner harbor seemed to be stumbling through darkness as it tried to pull itself out of receivership...
...million: Barrels of Iraqi oil imported...