Word: propellent
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These sources of dynamism, agreed TIME'S economists, will help propel Asia in the future as they have pushed it in the past. But there are new challenges...
...long-running dispute between the U.S. and its Western European allies over Washington's sanctions against the Soviet natural gas pipeline. The shipment amounted to an open French challenge of the U.S. embargo: each of the crates contained a French-made and U.S.-designed compressor that will help propel Siberian gas through the 3,000-mile pipeline. It was the first delivery of such pipeline equipment by any Western supplier...
...Brothers), has distilled from the darker lunacies of these worlds a novel of crackling humor and mordant observation. Its bigger-than-Barron 's protagonist is Oilman Buford ("Bubber") Gudge IV, who has been content to nurse his multibillion-dollar fortune in the Texas Panhandle until lust and vengeance propel him forth like a plague of pissants...
...Anheuser-Busch has traditionally dominated the industry through its sheer size and muscle, Miller Brewing Co. has emerged as a hard-charging No. 2. Its tactics: canny marketing and nimble product development. Miller owner Philip Morris used rough-and-ready cowboy imagery during the 1950s and 1960s to propel its Marlboro brand to the lead in U.S. cigarette sales. Since it took over Miller in 1970, Philip Morris has used the same image-conscious advertising to promote beer. The master marketeers down-played the old Miller High Life slogan, "the champagne of bottled beers," and created a new image through...
...enactments of the occurrence and displays of self-flagellation. The same passion seems to have motivated hundreds of thousands of unarmed Iranians who faced down the Shah's troops in the streets of Tehran in 1978 and 1979. Khomeini, no doubt, is counting on that fervor to propel the Iranian legions that stormed across the Iraqi border last week...