Word: reborning
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...intended as a coming-out party for Iran's reborn oil industry. Unfortunately, when Hassan Nazih, the new director of the National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC), pressed a button that was supposed to start crude oil flowing into the hold of a waiting supertanker, nothing happened. After 68 days of no petroleum exports at all, Iran had to wait another five minutes while technicians hurried to locate and repair an electrical malfunction in the pumping equipment. For the assembled crowd of government officials and oil workers, the delay was an embarrassment. For the oil-thirsty nations of the world...
Bernstein said yesterday he got the idea for a College Bowl team last summer when he was bored on the day of his sister's wedding and turned on the TV to see the reborn College Bowl television show...
...happy, and the nation that since developed out of that same era of uneasy, deluded simplicity. The narrative wanders, like Ellello*u, through a landscape of desolate beauty and frightening foreshadowings, and finally comes back to a world of bittersweet humor and fantastic conclusions. The American of the '50s, reborn in Africa, greets Ellello*u as he emerges from the desert, and each calls the other a sham. Each is right...
...laugh while rivals scrambled to reproduce those nonexistent products. Did he have any trouble adjusting from the hard-goods world of delivery schedules and manufacturing specifications to the selling of glamour and other intangibles based sometimes on plain old hunch? On the contrary. Says he: "It's like being reborn...
...thing, nobody that young at heart and that well known had represented America in Europe since Gene Kelly danced in the movie An American in Paris. The Yankees seemed reborn: a new generation in charge...