Word: ratchetted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, most American refiners can only process low-sulfur "sweet" crudes. The bottom line for consumers? They will face higher prices, just what this rigamarole was supposed to prevent. The big refiners will ratchet up prices to pay for the extra refining, and the smaller refiners will raise prices to offset the loss of business...
...more likely to evoke anger and sometimes shame. The place where hope is shared is in the future. Demographer Ben Wattenberg, formerly perceived as a resister to social change, says, "There's a nice chance that the American myth in the 1990s and beyond is going to ratchet another step toward this idea that we are the universal nation. That rings the bell of manifest destiny. We're a people with a mission and a sense of purpose, and we believe we have something to offer the world...