Word: spikeness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...state's appetite for electricity was growing fast, its generating capacity was getting no bigger. Today California imports about 25% of its juice from neighbors in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest--a link that has frayed with the growing demand in those areas. Nor did anyone foresee a spike in rates for natural gas, which fires about half of California's generating plants and can account for more than half of the price of electricity. Then, as the rising demand for power met its restricted supply, the wholesale price of energy jumped from less than 5[cents...
...contracted power back at a higher price than to use it themselves. (Which is exactly what aluminum makers in the Northwest are doing with their valuable electricity, much of which flows to California.) At a time when many fear the country is slipping into a recession, the natural-gas spike, according to Goldman Sachs, could cut economic growth...
...sanctions. He warned that the planned 1.5 million-barrel cut proposed for next week could send prices soaring if Iraq failed to resume production at full quota - because the impact of Iraq's cutback has not yet been felt on the world market. Yamani warned that a sharp spike would work in Iraq's favor, since it would compel oil companies to pay a 40-cents-a-barrel surcharge imposed by Baghdad in violation of the sanctions regime...
...fact, any deal Barak brings home with a Palestine "entity" in it may be spiked; Arafat, meanwhile, says if he comes back without Haram al Sharif, militant Muslims will spike him. Clinton knows even two signatures won't mean a thing until a lengthy separation and stabilization process is begun and ended (that'd be George W. Bush...
...Morning Again? spell cast by Ronald Reagan inspired such counter-culture phenomenoms as Kurt Cobain and Spike...