Word: thirsts
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...Beirut, too, supporters of Gaddafi seemed keen to show off their thirst for vengeance. An extremist group called the Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims sent a four-minute videotape to the Beirut daily AnNahar showing a blindfolded man dangling from a scaffold. The victim appeared to be Alex Collett, 64, a British journalist who had been kidnaped 13 months ago. A statement accompanying the tape claimed that Collett had been executed in answer to the American air attack, as had three hostages who were found shot in Beirut a week earlier...
...tsunami." Notwithstanding some bumps along the road, Greenspan has presided over a period of extraordinary prosperity for our nation. Today's massive deficits stem from a bipartisan band of congressional spendthrifts and our purportedly conservative President. Greenspan sets banking and monetary policy. He has no control over the insatiable thirst of elected officials to spend, spend, spend. Oren M. Spiegler Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania...
...catastrophe "Bush's tsunami." Notwithstanding some bumps along the road, Greenspan has presided over a period of great prosperity. Today's massive deficits stem from a bipartisan band of congressional spendthrifts and our purportedly conservative President. Greenspan sets banking and monetary policy. He has no control over the insatiable thirst of elected officials to spend, spend, spend...
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...