Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rouge, La., that normally processes 455,000 bbl. of crude a day. The accident, probably caused by a spark that ignited hydrocarbons released from a pipe, killed two workers and injured seven others. Company officials announced that the facility will partly reopen this week. Other installations also suffered shutdowns: Shell Oil closed two gasoline refineries in Texas and Louisiana and curtailed operations at an Illinois plant because of frozen equipment. Some facilities were operating at about half capacity...
...1980s came to an end in what seemed like a magic act, performed on a world-historical stage. Trapdoors flew open, and whole regimes vanished. The shell of an old world cracked, its black iron fragments dropping away, and something new, alive, exploded into the air in a flurry of white wings...
...1980s came to an end in what seemed like a magic act. The shell of an old world cracked, but a new order remained to be built. A master politician, Gorbachev could win election in many countries, but probably not his own. The Soviet threat isn't what it used to be -- and maybe never...