Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contracts, and much of the wilderness has become overgrown with low-grade timber of little commercial value. The New England Regional Commission, an economic development group, puts the total energy content of the area's forests at the equivalent of some 3 billion bbl. of oil, roughly the proven reserves of the Middle East sultanate of Oman. Unlike oil, the forest is a renewable resource and could provide a significant fraction of New England's energy needs indefinitely...
Directly south of Iran across the Persian Gulf is Saudi Arabia, whose traditional monarchic system remains intact but which is nevertheless highly vulnerable: only 8 million people live in a land one-fourth the size of the U.S. that possesses the world's largest proven oil reserves...
...proven winner and self-made millionaire with investments in a dozen enterprises, Bryant can comfortably insist that he is just a simple country boy who got lucky. His legacy belies that: 39 former Bryant players and assistants have become head coaches in college or the pros, among them the Houston Oilers' Bum Phillips, Maryland's Jerry Claiborne and the Washington Redskins' Jack Pardee. A total of 47 players have gone on to the pros, including such stars as Lee Roy Jordan, Joe Namath and Ken Stabler...
...dizzying realm of oil statistics, that rough estimate requires major qualification. Reserves are measured in three ways: proven, probable and potential. Unlike other countries, Mexico further complicates matters by lumping oil and gas together; about two-thirds are oil, one-third gas. The government figures its proven reserves?oil and gas that can be recovered with existing technology at current prices?at 20 billion bbl. This total is expected to be raised soon to about 30 billion bbl., which would make Mexico's known supplies of oil slightly larger than those of Venezuela or Nigeria, though far smaller than Saudi...
...post-Shah Iran," but that surely was part of his assignment. Another part: to ponder the impact of Iran's instability on nearby Saudi Arabia. U.S. officials are exceedingly worried about the vulnerability of this sparsely populated, semifeudal monarchy, which possesses the world's largest proven oil reserves (150 billion bbl.). Admits one Administration official: "It gives me the willies just thinking about Saudi Arabia...