Word: petros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shifted from the literary world toward those of science, business, medicine and North American slang. In fact, a partial listing of what the language has been up to lately is enough to inspire depression: brain-dead, nose job, right-to-die, acid rain, crack, heat-seeker, asset stripping, greenmail, petro-currency, barf, drunk tank. There is not much here that would inspire Keats to write...
...companies calculate that they will reap enormous benefits from their participation, some in direct sales, some in goodwill. Labatt Brewing has been getting almost unqualified public approval for its program of bringing the parents of Canadian athletes to Calgary to watch their children perform. Petro-Canada put up $35.6 million, on top of a $4.3 million sponsorship fee, to stage the trans-Canada torch relay that ended with the lighting of the Olympic flame Saturday.The company expects to realize a 2% increase in market share and an additional $221 million in annual revenues as a result...
...violent path down which Yassir Arafat has led Palestinians has been a complete moral and strategic failure. Palestinians have lived in makeshift camps for nearly 40 years, and their "leaders" have resisted Israeli attempts to provide them with better housing. Saudi petro-billions have bought the Palestinians machine guns, not a better life...
...shock, it does so on American-supplied oil. When the South African police throw a minor in jail for visiting his wife and family without a pass, they obtain his name from an American computer. When the South African government makes plans for energy independence, it counts on American petro-chemical technology. When white South Africans are anxious about their future, American businessmen offer assurances that our government will support their brutality. When Harvard and other wealthy educational institutions defend Americans investment in South Africa, the whole world listen and the days of oppression and injustice are lengthened...
...farmers, among the world's poorest, have relied on the pigs to produce income for medical care, weddings, funerals and education. The long-legged, lean porker was also a helpful consumer of weeds and even human wastes. And of no small importance, hougans (priests) regularly appease their demanding Petro gods with the blood of a black pig, the preferred sacrificial symbol of voodoo...