Word: tanked
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...found Nancy Gibbs' "Pain in the Gas" mildly disturbing [June 4]. How can people not care about how much it costs to fill their car's tank? What about hardworking Americans like me who live check to check and simply cannot afford to spend $55 to $75 to fill up? I drive a 1989 Volvo, which gets 24 m.p.g., but I live far from work. I get less than a week's commute out of a tank of gas. I'm paying a lot of money that I can't really spare just...
...because corn is a worldwide commodity. In some ways, it's a very nasty food-or-fuel struggle. "The line that used to separate food grain from the grain being used for energy is being erased," says Lester R. Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, an environmental think tank in Washington. "The stage is now set for direct competition for grain between the 800 million people who own automobiles and the world's 2 billion poorest people...
Among Faust’s supporters were Neil L. Rudenstine, who led Harvard as president from 1991 to 2001 and had made her the first dean of the Radcliffe Institute, the think tank on Garden Street. Rudenstine, who strongly urged the committee to pick Faust toward the end of the search, told the committee he believed Harvard would best be served by a candidate with significant experience in university administration...
Most of the shelling seems concentrated at the northern end of the camp, where the Fatah al-Islam base is located. But there is also shelling elsewhere, and huge plumes of black smoke are rising from the camp. There is a tank near our position that is firing rounds, too. We are close enough to the camp that the soldiers are shooting with M16 rifles as well...
...National Intelligence Council, a U.S.-government think tank, predicts that the Gulf of Guinea will supply 20-25% of total U.S. imports by 2020, but Americans are not alone in their mounting dependence upon West Africa. Angola is now China's top oil supplier. Gabon is a key supplier of France. Oilmen from countries as diverse as Russia, Japan and India are showing up in places like Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Chad - even perennial war zones like the Democratic Republic of Congo. With all that interest, Paul Lubeck, Michael Watts and Ronnie Lipshutz of the Center for International Policy...