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...huge estimated recoverable reserves of 70 billion bbl. Until the recent jump in prices, getting at this petroleum was considered too expensive to be profitable; the oil is so thick that dilutants often have to be poured into the wells to increase its fluidity so that pumps can suck it out. Now, because of the oil-price bonanza, the Venezuelan government has the cash to buy the sophisticated technology needed to exploit the find. At the same time, the government is being pressured to placate national pride by taking over control of foreign oil concessions before 1983, when most...
...suck it? No? You swallow it? I'll swallow it." But at other times: "Those kids who touch drugs are crazy when they can have a drink of Southern Comfort...
...narrow strait that doglegs around the tiny tip of Oman, the Persian Gulf may be the world's most valuable and vulnerable waterway. At such desert-edge ports as Ras Tanura, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Dhahran and Kharg Island, scores of supertankers congregate like wallowing whales to suck up crude oil. Daily they plow through the gulfs warm waters and out through the Strait of Hormuz carrying some 20 million bbl. of oil-almost half of the non-Communist world's consumption. If the gulf were closed, the effect on the U.S., Europe and Japan would be devastating...
...Suck on that, you reactionaries!" crowed Santiago's pro-government newspaper, Puro Chile. It certainly had something to crow about: Socialist President Salvador Allende Gossens' Popular Unity Coalition had just managed a surprisingly strong showing in the national parliamentary elections against a special coalition of Christian Democrat and National parties...
...acre. In strong winds on a hot day, the duff could burn so furiously that huge updrafts of air would be created as the fire sought oxygen to feed itself. In such an event, says Berkeley Forestry Professor Harold Biswell, "we might have a fire storm that would literally suck roofs off houses...