Word: tar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were unusually secretive about their identities. In a brief conversation with an agent of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Cyprus (who said he was trying to persuade the terrorists to surrender), one of the skyjackers called himself Harda Mahmoud. He claimed to be a survivor of the Tal Zaa-tar Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, which had been overrun by Christian forces during the Lebanese civil war. The other male terrorist identified himself as Walter Mohammed. The skyjackers may be members of Min Beirut, a previously unknown Beirut-based guerrilla group that last week claimed responsibility for the skyjacking. Proclaiming...
Perhaps another 2 trillion bbl. of oil is thought to lie in the great deposits of goo known as tar sands, much of which are in Canada. At present world prices, they are on the verge of becoming economical to develop. Two plants are already extracting oil from tar sands in Alberta's Athabasca fields, and Shell Canada plans to spend $4 billion for a third plant, which will start producing in the early 1980s...
...better idea would be to channel the wellhead taxes into R. and D.-perhaps by setting up a federal corporation to underwrite the efforts of companies struggling to find economical ways of coaxing oil out of otherwise exhausted wells, burning it out of shale or extracting it out of tar sands. Russell Long, the Louisiana Democrat who heads the Senate Finance Committee, has threatened to eliminate the wellhead tax from the Carter program unless the revenues are used to help expand production. He has a powerful point. Politically, it would be improper to let the oil companies reap "windfall" profits...
Although a final verdict must await further studies, most researchers now believe that aside from rare bad trips by novice smokers, marijuana is hazardous only for chronic heavy users-people who get stoned nearly every day. They risk becoming psychologically dependent on pot and damaging their lungs with the tar in marijuana smoke. But light or occasional use of marijuana-once or twice a week -usually produces only a pleasant high, no more dangerous than mild intoxication from alcohol. Of course, pot like alcohol affects users' judgment and reflexes, so it can lead to accidents if people drive...
...wrong weight, and the handles were all too big." Interpretation: the wood was not shaved within the proper tiny fraction of an inch of perfection. Like all the other great hitters, Carew scrupulously cares for his bats. He bathes them with alcohol, removing the buildup of pine tar that is used to tighten the bond between hand and wood. "I can't stand a dirty bat," he explains. "Some guys leave pine tar on their bats and never clean them off. I can't understand that. How can they get a feel for the wood...