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Look at China and India. The world's two largest countries are experiencing blazing economic growth, fueling a booming thirst for oil. The rest of the world's appetite for oil hasn't diminished. Use in the U.S.--still far and away the world's largest oil consumer--is growing along with economic activity by 200,000 barrels a day annually while domestic crude-oil production stagnates. Britain, long an oil exporter from its North Sea reserves, will soon become a net importer. Last year world oil production increased, but demand for oil rose faster...
...rain slacked off the day of the game, and the field sucked down the moisture with a Saharan-like thirst. In the parking lot, Odessans in recreational vehicles relished barbecue. In one, Stan Pulley, Marge Pulley, Claudeane Sublett, John Sublett, Mike Carter and Jan Jones addressed an inquisitor all at once, making it difficult to record who said what...
Spending an estimated $27.9 billion a year for soft drinks, Americans seem to have almost unquenchable thirst. A handy new aid that caters to this craving is called Soda Stream. Fitted with a carbon dioxide cartridge, the shiny plastic appliance fizzes tap water into salt-free club soda. Adding flavor concentrates will make instant plain or diet cola, tonic, root beer or the popular fruit sodas. Compared with supermarket soda prices, which can soar as high as 50¢ for a 12-oz. brand-name can, Soda Stream at 15¢ per bottle is a bargain. The initial investment of $39.95 buys...
...bottle, about three times what you'd expect to pay for Bacardi. No word yet on whether 10 Cane will reach Europe, but rum is one of the world's best-selling spirits, with annual sales in the U.S. of about $4.6 billion. And Europeans have shown a thirst for quality rum, especially Havana Club, the Cuba-produced tipple that's been the fastest-growing brand in recent years for another French firm, Pernod Ricard. (That company also said last week that it was making a $10 billion pitch, along with Fortune Brands, for the England-based Allied Domecq...
...Thirst To Acquire Coca-Cola and its Greek bottling unit bought Multon, the second-largest juice company in Russia. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but analysts valued the purchase at about $650 million...