Word: oils
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There is an ever present belief in the Western world that Islam is contrary to modernization and progress. The current development and modernization in many oil-rich Islamic nations prove that progress and Islam can go together. If you call legalization of gambling, striptease, pornography and homosexual rights social reforms and modernization, I would say no to such progress...
Most dowsers seem to like nothing better than to regale skeptics with their accomplishments. Clarence Hollett of Willow Shade, Ky., styles himself as "the Mr. Doodlebug." In the dowser lexicon, doodlebugs are a special breed - diviners for oil. Hollett, a rotund, barrel-chested man, says he has found wells that produce 1 ,000 bbl. a day and, if only he hadn't been swindled by so-called friends, he might be a millionaire. He also dabbles in healing and dowses for gold. "Don't believe me?" he asks, and promptly borrows a gold ring from a cynical listener...
...consumer is a double victim of the energy problem. First, we are victims of the oil companies with their rigged prices, artificial shortages, bookkeeping juggles, and growing control of all sources of energy. Second, we are victims of the U.S. government, with its blind reliance on the price mechanism (import taxes, natural gas deregulation) to force conservation. Vast amounts of energy consumption are simply built into the system, with interstates, suburbs, glass buildings, etc. The only way to force conservation without penalizing the poor or adding to the corporate coffers is to ration energy...
...nearby coleus and expresses his fond hope that the food will help the plant "grow up strong and have hairy pistils like its father." Next he picks up a small statue and, holding it like a microphone, intones, "Allo, allo, zis eez Jacques Cousteau for Union Oil." He then breaks into the Beverly Hills Blues: "Woke up the other day/ Ran out of Perrier/ I've really paid my dues/ Had to sell my Gucci shoes." The Robin Williams show has begun. Except that the show takes place off-camera between takes on Mark & Mindy ?the sleeper comedy sitcom...
Spoonful powdered orange drink added to glass of tap water, bowl of puff-milled corn, sugar, corn syrup, molases, salt, partially hydrogenated coconut oil, sodium ascorbate, BHA added to preserve product freshness...