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But the program was doomed almost from the start. The price of oil peaked at more than $40 per bbl. in 1982 and has fallen steadily since, to about $27 per bbl. today. It has thus become much cheaper to import oil than to manufacture synthetic fuels. And that has...
"It's our vote of confidence in the tobacco industry," says Donald Nanney, a factory manager of R.J. Reynolds'. Only a few years ago, such a vote would have seemed unnecessary. Economic recessions came and went, prices continually climbed, but Americans always kept buying more and more cigarettes. Today, though...
The former Venice Patriarch Albino Luciani is remembered fondly, though with sorrow, for a papacy that lasted just 33 days before his sudden death.The man who would become John Paul I was little known outside of Venetian and Italian circles before he began to emerge in the days before the...
Unfortunately, Laettner’s career peaked at age 22, when he won a gold medal with the Dream Team in Barcelona after back-to-back titles at Duke. The no. 3 pick of the 1992 NBA Draft has averaged 12.9 points per game for his career and is currently...
Appealing to nostalgia for the days of the Old South, The Birth of a Nation was, and still is, used as KKK propaganda to recruit new members. The emotions evoked were so strong that Klan membership peaked in the ten years following the film’s cinematic release.