Word: tars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bust has spoiled the economics of alternative energy sources as well. Many of the ballyhooed 1970s-era programs to extract petroleum from oil shale and tar sands have been mothballed because they cost too much to operate. The hundreds of mom-and-pop solar-power companies that sprang up in the past decade have mostly folded, even in the Sunbelt. Says Susan deWitt, executive director for the California Solar Energy Industries Association: "Our customers no longer feel the urgency to pursue renewable energy." The U.S. is not alone in that regard. Brazil's innovative alcohol-fuel program will...
...This is pretty hot stuff," declared Thomas Locke, an FBI agent specializing in narcotics. "It's so hot, it's killing people." He was referring to the growing tendency of heroin addicts to use "black tar," a smelly, dark- colored, often sticky version of the drug that is cheap, at about 20 cents per mg, and extremely potent: often 60% or 70% pure heroin. Conventional heroin, on the other hand, sells on the street at about $2.32 per mg and is rarely more than 6% pure. The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration has prepared a report citing the Mexican states...
...very rough handle on this contest, consider a common opponents chain. In the middle of December, the Crimson fell to Manhattan College, 81-69. Several weeks later, North Carolina embarrassed Manhattan, 129-45, in one of the worst defeats in NCAA history. And last weekend, the Tar Heels squeaked by Duke at home...
...caught it and shot it in one motion," said Manhattan assistant coach Bob Dellebovi describing a Tar Heel's fluid motions during his team's loss to UNC. "There was nothing our kids could...
...smelly chemical wastes rushing back up to the surface of this presumably cleaned-up site and into the Susquehanna. "There was an extremely strong odor that would burn your nostrils," said City Clerk Paul McGarry, who went to investigate after residents began phoning with complaints. "It looked like liquid tar...