Word: sulfurous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ironic reason for the slack demand for so-called sweet crude like Britain's Brent light is that its quality is too high. Traditionally, refiners were willing to pay a premium for light, low-sulfur crude, which is used primarily to make gasoline. But refiners in the past year have improved their technology so that they use more of the less expensive, heavy crude. Thus the so-called sour oil is getting a larger share of the market, and its price has been holding firmer. In the past few weeks Saudi Arabia has boosted its exports of heavy crude...
...years ago, the Belgian-born Rich controlled a group of companies from his New York office that annually traded some $10 billion worth of such commodities as oil, gold, aluminum, sulfur and sugar. But the FBI, apparently tipped off by a group of Texas oil traders, had begun looking into Rich's dealings and was soon joined by agents of the Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service and Customs Service. Rich's often inept efforts to stonewall the probe took on a burlesque quality. His company refused to turn over documents to a grand jury, provoking...
...agenda for dealing with the U.S. At the top of the list is acid rain, which is threatening Canada's important fishing and timber industries−and which many Canadians blame on the U.S. The Reagan Administration contends that the link between acid rain and sulfur-dioxide emissions that drift northward from coal-fired power plants in the Midwest has not yet been proved. Mulroney, however, has promised to push the issue with the White House, most likely after the U.S. election in November. The Liberal government committed itself to halving emissions on its side of the border...
...agency argued that the scientific link between sources of sulfur dioxide and the impact of acid rain on the three states had not yet been demonstrated to its satisfaction. This reasoning is in line with the claim by EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus that numerous studies (including one prepared for the White House) were not persuasive in concluding that this form of pollution actually causes the damage that has been observed in Northeastern forests and lakes. He has asked for yet more research before committing his agency to ordering the polluting states to reduce their sulfur-dioxide emissions substantially...
...power of Richard's music, low-down as it may have been, is, like his religion, essentially evangelical. Like a preacher, a rocker is always more effective smelling of sulfur than holy water, a point amply, lovingly and sometimes hilariously demonstrated by Nick Tosches in his Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll (Scribners; $18.95). "Elvis may very well have been the most important figure in rock 'n' roll," Tosches writes. "But had it not been for those who came before him, there would have been no rock 'n' roll." Indeed, most...