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...energy industry at the end of the 1970s. Oilmen, expecting the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to push prices to $50 or even $75 per bbl., spent billions to find and develop wells and then were startled when consumption dropped and prices fell. OPEC, which had been trying to resist the slide, acknowledged the new era last month by cutting its official price 15%, from $34 to $29 per bbl. Observes T. Boone Pickens Jr., chairman of Mesa Petroleum and a 32-year veteran of the industry: "I've never seen a collapse as dramatic as this has been...
Clearly Dick's libido steered him towards both sexes, but Renee never quite indicates where it was taking him when. Trying to keep in the first person throughout the story, she cannot resist going back to a third person "he" or "Dick" in the description of the pre-operation adventures. The reader is left understandably confused about a man who at Yale had an affair with a Smith girl while simultaneously dressing up as a woman for Greenwich Village homosexual liaisons: who in his later years married and had a son, but soon after spent a year in Europe posing...
...role of the military, then, is "to aid national liberation movements and newly independent states resist the forces of imperialism." That such an ideology is little more today than a convenient tool with which Soviet leaders justify their activities abroad can hardly be debated...
...like to see others get hurt. Consider the excess of violence on television and in films. While TV-news leaders condemned the judgment of WHMA's news director, the major networks all showed portions of the tape that recorded a man setting himself on fire. The networks cannot resist satisfying the public's grisly appetite...
...word recurred as Biographer Edmund Morris made his way through research on Theodore Roosevelt. His contemporaries talked of T.R.'s "sweetness." Even Roosevelt's political opponent Woodrow Wilson was smitten. "There is a sweetness about him that is very compelling," he said. "You can't resist the man." Mark Twain, William Jennings Bryan and even the peevish Henry Adams all were beguiled at one time or another, according to Morris...