Word: oils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Recycling is an efficient means to aid one of the worthiest causes of our time--preserving dwindling natural resources for ourselves and for posterity. In addition to saving 17 trees, each ton of paper recycled conserves oil and thousands of gallons of freshwater that would otherwise be used in making new paper...
...taped some antidrug commercials and is working with Reebok to promote a shoe that would "pay tribute to antiapartheid awareness." He co-wrote and co-produced his new Chunky A record album. Its cuts include a comic rap number, a satire of raunch rock ("Let me check your oil with my dipstick") and a straight-faced antidrug anthem titled Dope...
...dining car are the softly lighted oil paintings, the white linen, the oversize European-style forks and knives, the private-stock California sparkling wine, the seven stately courses of dinner (a just and seemly number, the traveler comes muzzily to feel), the white and the red wines, the port, and, yes, please, the cognac. Conversation ramifies, and 2:30 a.m. ticks roguishly into view. The foresighted journeyer will have made an appointment to use his car's shower next morning, and the porter will knock at the proper time with a bathrobe. At breakfast, a driven soul may have...
...expectations [for continued high oil prices] were very great among those who lended the money," Parodi said, pointing to the early 1980s trend among leading U.S. bankers to approve extravagant loans on the expectation of high payoffs...
...were wrong--those who lended and those who received, but there is a feeling that it is the fault of the borrowers," said Parodi, who was a top administrator in Ecuador's oil industry...