Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kuwait refuses us, a crash landing will take place on the...prince's palace," one hijacker radioed the control tower, referring to the ruling emir of the oil-rich state...
...being questioned, not their necessity. Last week State Councilor Song Ping proposed recombining 14 existing ministries and commissions into ten new ones. If adopted, the proposal would cut 10,000 people, or 20%, of the State Council staff by the end of the year. The state-owned rail, oil, coal and nuclear industries would become public corporations under ministerial supervision but responsible for their own profits and losses...
...heart of Meese's troubles was his friendship with Wallach, who advised Meese during his difficult Senate confirmation as Attorney General in 1985. The wheeler-dealer lawyer had financial interests in both Wedtech and the proposed Iraqi oil pipeline that Meese tried to expedite. Wallach was indicted by a federal grand jury in New York City last December for illegally acquiring payments from Wedtech to influence Meese...
While Wal-Mart was going big-time, Montgomery Ward was taking a tumble. Bought by Mobil for $1 billion in 1976, Ward saddled the oil company with losses that exceeded $100 million a year in the early 1980s. From 1983 to 1987 Ward fell from No. 6 to No. 12 in the retail rankings as its sales declined 30%, to $4.6 billion. But in 1985 Mobil brought in Bernard Brennan to turn things around. Brennan slimmed down the company, selling its catalog operation and a troubled discount division. He transformed many of the remaining stores, filling them with attractive specialty...
...dinner simmering on the stove. And diverse though the array of take- out foods may be, inevitably there seems to be a sameness -- the endless curls and squiggles of cold pastas, the curried or dilled chicken salads and the pans of wilting zucchini and string beans swimming in oil. Then there is the dominant flavor -- call it take-out -- owing perhaps to bottled dressings or sauces underseasoned to appeal to the mass palate. Gone are the idiosyncratic subtleties of family recipes...