Word: steams
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Between 1950 and 2005, the world's use of oil grew more than eightfold, bringing global demand to 85 million bbl. of oil per day. Despite that incredible growth, the world's oil appetite is just getting a head of steam, as countries like China and India finally move toward lifestyles comparable to those of Europe and the U.S. Most oil-forecasting models show demand rising to between 120 million and 130 million bbl. per day by 2025 or 2030. The only way this demand can be met is for most of the additional supply to come from the Middle...
...everyone is buying that opinion. "I have some doubts" about those growth predictions, said Blanque. "Recovery is a bet on investment, and investment is running out of steam." He believed the U.S. still suffers from overcapacity--not to mention consumer indebtedness. Tyson agreed that the American consumer's ability to keep on spending will prove decisive...
...whole contingents of friends and family came to see his college team appear in three games during the Basketball Travelers Classic.The show began with a disappointing scoreless night in the Crimson’s tournament and season opener against No. 23 Stanford, an embarrassing 111-56 defeat. It gathered steam Saturday as Lin poured in a career-high 15 points, including three second-half three-pointers, in a closer-than-it-sounds 79-61 loss to UC Santa Barbara. And it culminated on Sunday, when Lin re-established his personal best with 17 points and typified the aggressive, running style...
Michael D. Smith faced more than a difficult market when he moved into the basement of his wife’s brokerage firm to start up a computer security business. First a steam pipe in the ceiling broke, flooding the basement with scalding water. Then the sewage backed up into the office. “When you start a company, you find space wherever you can, no matter how disgusting and smelly it is,” Smith says of the business, Liquid Machines Inc., which has grown from two to 60 employees since it debuted six years...
...When it opened on Friday, Dan was decapitated by Saw IV, grossing only about $4 million to the horror movie's $14 million. Then it picked up steam Saturday, while Saw lost some teeth. Older viewers may catch up with Dan; in industry parlance, the film may have legs. Let's hope so, not because Dan is anything special, but for the sake of grown-up comedy, which this one intermittently tries...