Word: petroleum
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...troops left Lebanon in 2005. This is not to say that the Bush Administration caused last week's explosion, or even that meticulous diplomacy might have prevented it. But it couldn't have hurt. Instead, the U.S. and Iran may have become unwitting co-conspirators, pouring gas onto a petroleum fire-a dreadful twist that only a Persian could love...
...curb the growth of trusts, the huge enterprises that gathered together smaller companies to form near monopolies. Oil, steel, rubber, copper--one after another, the major sectors of the U.S. economy were becoming dominated by behemoths like John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, which marketed 84% of all the petroleum products in the U.S. As large companies gobbled up smaller ones, McKinley did nothing to spoil the feeding frenzy, though it often meant higher prices and lower wages. The Sherman Antitrust Act, passed in 1890, was a feeble weapon to begin with--the Supreme Court had restricted how it could...
Events were being monitored by the hour inside the CIA. "Owning Iraq," a country in confusion, with its oil wells shut down, was one matter. The overthrow of Saudi Arabia - the true nexus of oil and Allah, producer of 25% of the world's exported petroleum and, by some U.S. estimates, nearly all of the world's most far-reaching terrorism - was entirely another. At a 5 p.m. meeting in mid-May, the CIA's top management huddled. Tenet, that morning, had been grilled by Cheney about the status of the CIA's investigation of the reputed mubtakkar cell...
...into that rotten meat. There is no getting away from that. It's a licorice that these power children really cannot stop themselves licking. I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum. You spoke today to teenagers in Berlin about the wisdom of your grandfather, who told you never to run from a fight. Is there a reason why you chose to speak on this topic in Europe today? It is a parable. Definitely I had in mind what is happening...
...native foods near his Arizona home. Soon some 60 bloggers had joined the 100-mile diet, inaugurating their own website, EatLocalChallenge.com This year they upped the ante, moving the test to the less bounteous month of May. "With gas prices spiking, people are concerned about our dependence on petroleum," says Locavores co-founder Jessica Prentice. "Why import apples from New Zealand when we can grow them nearby...