Word: oils
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...Sunni, while 52% of Iraq's 12 million people are Shi'ites. As in Iran, the mullahs have a tradition of political activism, and there have been violent clashes between religious dissidents and the regime's 125,000-man all-Sunni "popular army." Although government corruption and mismanagement of oil wealth are not major issues, General Saddam Hussein runs a tough police state: dissent is ruthlessly suppressed and Iraqi jails are said to hold thousands of political prisoners. The government's greatest worry is a revival of unrest among the 2 million Kurds, who share with their ethnic cousins...
...national, religious and political legitimacy as an Islamic righteous man. Menachem Begin took himself to be speaking for the West when he said he feared this return to the Middle Ages, even as he covered Israeli occupation of Arab land with Old Testament authorizations. Western leaders worried about their oil, so little appreciated by the Islamic hordes who thronged the streets to topple the Light of the Aryans...
...newly resource-rich Western Canadian provinces, which feel that their growing economic clout is not matched by commensurate political influence in the central government. The Westerners served for decades as a captive market for high-priced manufactured goods from Eastern Canada. Now that they have come into their own, oil-producing Alberta and Saskatchewan are resentful that the Trudeau government has claimed a slice of their petroleum revenues to subsidize the price of imported oil, on which most of Eastern Canada depends...
...This is a painful step, and I'll give it to you straight. Each one of us will have to use less oil and pay more...
...policy, way back in 1977, Jimmy Carter summoned the nation to a "moral equivalent of war," which was to be fought through a highly complex program of tax incentives and other gimmicks, and focused on conservation as the key to solving the nation's twin problems of declining oil production and rising dependence on price-gouging foreign suppliers. The new plan that he outlined in his plainspoken, 23-minute Oval Office address last week was far simpler-and much more likely to be effective. Henceforth, old-fashioned marketplace economics is to be the basic engine to spur not only...