Word: soured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flash is but a weak flicker. The fallout from collapsing energy prices can be seen throughout the oil patch: in empty office towers, foreclosed homes, shuttered stores and the swelling ranks of unemployed. Auctions of everything from furniture to oil-field equipment are increasingly common. Banks are saddled with sour energy loans, and state governments are strapped for funds. In Texas, for example, each $1-per-bbl. drop in oil prices means a loss of 25,000 jobs and $100 million worth of state revenues...
...recent weeks, though, bad loans in the U.S. oil patch have joined the long-standing Mexican problem at the top of bankers' worry lists. Energy loans gone sour have already forced the federal bailout of one major U.S. bank, Continental Illinois, in 1984, and the latest surge of bankruptcies in the energy belt could at least cause some smaller institutions to collapse. The top U.S. banks have an estimated $40 billion in oil and natural gas loans on their books, and more than half of the money has been lent to vulnerable small companies...
...roll call found just enough members present for the meeting to continue, and I was personally relieved that the many organizations who had requested funds would be able to receive them without having to wait for the next meeting after Spring Break. Yet the victory was sour. In the belligerent manner in which I was treated for asking that the council follow its own bylaws, the Undergraduate Council proved that it was neither accountable to its constituents nor its Constitution. An elected body which has reached this state has abdicated any claim it may have ever had to legitimacy...
Crispitos, which are tortillas filled with either apple chunks and cinnamon, a chicken and cheese mixture or chili, are offered with sour cream at the salad bar. The skincredibles, which are sold commercially as potato skins, are topped with either beef, cheese or cheese and broccoli sauce. Both crispitos and skincredibles can be fried or baked depending on the oven space and labor allotments of the different kitchens...
...been years since he had formally and respectfully addressed blank paper with only pen or pencil in hand. He felt unarmed, vulnerable. He thought of final exams long years ago--the fields of rustling blue-book pages, the universal low, frantic scratching of pens, the smell of sour collegiate anguish...