Word: patch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...deal ignited oil-patch speculation that Bahrain's rulers see the arrangement as a way to gain influence with the Bush Administration. The President's son, known informally as George Jr., is a Harken investor, director and consultant. No one has produced evidence that Bahrain has won any favors from the White House in return. Yet the financial connection has caused the Administration some discomfort, most notably last fall when reporters asked whether the young Bush's gulf investment had any influence on his father's decision to send troops there. Said Bush's son last October...
BUSINESS: An Oddity in the Oil Patch...
...Eddie was a simple man. He had been born in a farm house a few miles out of Bangor. His father was a poor farmer, with a few acres of potato fields, some chickens, a cow and a vegetable patch. New England was a bad place to be poor...
...learn from traditional agriculture. Formerly, such farming was often viewed as inefficient and downright destructive. "Slash and burn" agriculture, in particular, was viewed with contempt. Following this method, tribes burn down a section of forest, farm the land until it is exhausted and then move on to clear another patch of trees. This strategy has been blamed for the rapid loss of tropical rain forests...
...thousand people, maybe more," goes the line in The Sounds of Silence. Make that many, many more. An estimated 750,000, in fact, equivalent to the entire population of Baltimore, all crammed into a single patch of New York City's Central Park. PAUL SIMON was back, a decade after his first free concert there, but this time things were different. Unlike in 1981, he didn't invite his erstwhile partner Art Garfunkel to join him. Simon, now the Midas of polycultural pop, seemed determined to banish the ghost of the folk-rock sound that made him famous. Backed...