Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular, the Japanese are taking America's skylines by storm. They have invested an estimated $7 billion ($5.5 billion last year alone) in office towers and other buildings. Oil-company headquarters are a favorite: Hiro Real Estate last month paid $250 million for Mobil Oil's 42-story Manhattan headquarters tower. An older landmark, Fifth Avenue's Tiffany building, was sold last November to Dai-ichi America Real Estate for $94 million. Where landmarks are not available, seascapes will do: in Hawaii, Japanese investors own more than half of the twelve major hotels along Waikiki Beach...
...pair spent much of the 1970s painstakingly deciphering how the body regulates cholesterol levels. Just as oil and water cannot mix without a detergent, cholesterol cannot enter the bloodstream unless it is ferried within a complex of molecules called low-density lipoprotein, or LDL. The Texas researchers found that the LDL ferries travel to docks called LDL receptors. More important, they learned that low cholesterol levels in the liver trigger the production of more receptors, which pull LDL out of the blood. But if the liver does not make enough receptors, the LDL levels in the blood will rise...
...diplomatic moves were played out, U.S. officials criticized Iraq for heating up the war again. That untimely escalation threatens peace discussions at the U.N. and poses a greater danger than ever to U.S. naval forces, which since July 21 have been providing protection to eleven reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers. At the same time, the U.S. denounced Tehran's dilatory tactics in responding to a July 20 U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire. The Reagan Administration even briefly threatened to seek an international arms embargo against Iran...
Iraq revived the tanker war on Aug. 29 after a 45-day lull that coincided with the U.S. military buildup and the Security Council resolution. Iraqi fighter jets swooped down over three Iranian oil facilities in widely separated locations. In the southern gulf, they set ablaze the tanker Alvand at Sirri Island as the ship was being loaded with Iranian oil. In the central gulf, they attacked an oil-loading facility on the island of Lavan. In the north they bombed and strafed the island of Farsi, used by Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a base for speedboat assaults against gulf...
...have disabled twelve "maritime targets," though independent sources could confirm only seven hits, one of them a small supply boat on which two crewmen were killed. The Iraqi air force, whose active warplanes outnumber Iran's almost 10 to 1, also bombed and set ablaze the main Iranian oil-processing facility on Kharg Island and attacked what a military communique described as "economic and industrial targets" around the Iranian cities of Ahwaz and Isfahan...