Word: tankerous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...David Broder, in his Washington Post column on Wednesday, and Harvard economist Richard Freeman and think-tanker Eileen Appelbaum in the New York Times on Thursday, all raise the admittedly intriguing idea of the "prosperity dividend." The gist: Wait until the surplus is a surplus before you send it back. At the end of the fiscal year, if there's money left over in the federal budget, simply cut every taxpayer in America a check...
...neither Britain's nor the rest of Europe's fuel troubles are over. Tanker trucks may be rolling again to London, but identical protests, which actually began in France a week before, spread into Germany and Spain, the Low Countries, Greece and Ireland. Europeans were bent on telling their governments they had had enough of paying the world's highest prices at the pump. Now their stunned leaders must find an acceptable reply...
...Most people think oil spills cause the most harm to ocean life. They don't. Fishing does. When a tanker wrecks, news crews flock to film gooey beaches and dying animals. Journalists rush right past the picturesque fishing boats whose huge nets and 1,000-hook long-lines wreak far more havoc on the marine world than spilled...
...Moscow is arresting an alleged U.S. "spy"; the next day the U.S. seizes a Russian oil tanker in the Persian Gulf on suspicion that it is carrying Iraqi oil. Anyone would be forgiven for thinking the clock had been turned back two decades to the height of the Cold War - and that's exactly the spin President Vladimir Putin's government wants to put on its relations with the West. The U.S. Navy announced Friday that its forces maintaining a blockade of Iraq were holding a Russian tanker pending tests to establish the origin of the oil on board, prompting...
...first few months fixing ailing systems and upgrading others. Then they moved on to training exercises, preparing the ship's departments--combat systems, navigation, engineering, operations--to work under battle conditions. In one exercise, McGrath trains her binoculars on an object in the distance. As a nondescript oil tanker comes into view, a dozen sailors cram into a small boat that's lowered over the Jarrett's port side. Armed and nervous, they're preparing to climb aboard the tanker (actually a Navy supply ship) to ensure it is not smuggling Iraqi oil in violation of the U.N. sanctions...