Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ends. Other countries have more than made up for Iraq's and Kuwait's lost production, and the U.S. is getting by on less imported oil, thanks in part to a warm winter and reduced demand driven by the recession. When Iraq and Kuwait start pumping again, the sudden glut could force prices down temporarily to $15 per bbl. or less. That would wash away the industry's profit gains of last quarter and further lower its subpar returns. Warns Unocal chairman Richard Stegemeier: "Instability is coming, and the industry doesn't do well in turbulent times...
Jeremy Nye '94 plays the nerdish studio accountant, Linus Pockets, who speaks in incomprehensible alliterations and wears only plaid. Nye pulls off without a hitch tongue-twisters like this one: "Stu-Stu Studio stock has slipped significantly, suggesting a single, sudden smash success is the solitary studio-saving scenario." Unfortunately, his role is limited to rushing onto the stage with periodic bad news...
...others into looking into this," says Noel Weidner, a surgical pathologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a co-author of the New England Journal paper. Weidner's group is the only one at Harvard--and one of only a few in the world--currently studying angiogenesis, the sudden and dangerous transformation of benign tumors into malignant beasts...
...Geneva, and the clock was ticking toward war. But political analysts in Washington and the Middle East now believe a deal might have been struck at those meetings in the Iranian capital, a deal that last week triggered one of the more mysterious events of the gulf war: the sudden departure for Iran of the cream of the Iraqi air force...
...since the crisis erupted. "I agree that Saddam is a ruthless dictator," says Mike Maatouk, 19, a sophomore at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, "but the end result of all this killing is that my Arab race, my people, are being pulled back 100 years. And all of a sudden every Arab person is your enemy...