Word: oils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would seem, for a state whose main contributions to the national culture are seamy politicians, country music, Astroturf, the Dallas Cowboys, and the Dallas Cowgirls--who are of course, the Dallas Cowboys' female cheerleaders, and the first wave of jiggle video to hit the screens of Omaha. And oil and gas. Still, not much reason for Texans to strut quite so much, or talk quite so loud. But residents of Texas, that bizarre man-child of a nation-state on the Gulf, are notorious bitter-enders--examples of mindless Thermopylae-like heroism stud their history like the turquoise on Waylon...
Stand on their own? The oil depletion allowance? Enormous public subsidies for the arenas their gladiators fight in? Soon-to-be deregulated natural gas? The Warren Commission? That's what I call standing on your own in a heroic way. Let's nuke it back to the Stone Age and start again...
...price-per-gallon of home heating oil has risen by about ten cents since September, Richard Slifka, treasurer of Kyett Oil Company in Cambridge, said yesterday. He added that the average homeowner's bill has gone from about $600 to about $730 since last winter...
...soon as a citizen fills out an application, the SCEOC can make an emergency oil delivery or intervene to put a hold on a delinquent account...
...Alkek's testimony, the grand jury alleged that Uni was the linchpin of a yearlong swindle. Specifically, the jury charged that M&A Petroleum, a small company founded by Alkek, and Ball Marketing had conspired in 1976 to sell Uni nearly 740,000 bbl. of certified old oil at prices from $5.17 to $5.48 per bbl. This oil was then illicitly recertified as new and sold to refineries at $9.55 to $ 14.45. The illegal profits came to as much as $6 million...