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George Bush's hands would have been freer if the U.S. had used the past 10 years to develop an effective policy that reduced its thirst for foreign crude. It has not done so for two major reasons. First, concerns about protecting the environment have hampered the development of domestic alternative energy sources such as offshore oil and coal. Second and more important, any effort to wean the U.S. from foreign energy sources would require forcing consumers to pay a higher price for gasoline and other fuels. In the early 1980s, when the price of crude rose to more than...
...Pacino as bad boy Big Boy probably delivers the best acting job of the movie--his maniacal thirst for power leads him to kill off all the competition in town. But while the humorous lines he throws around make for good comic relief, his character is still boring and one-dimentional. He's just your common table-banging mobster, who gets foiled...
...Diet Coke in the next room." For $40,000, Bill will move the scene to the next room and show the Duke actually being drowned in a large Diet Coke (logo prominently displayed). For $60,000, the murderers will also drink the Diet Coke and comment on its thirst-quenching qualities after their heavy labors...
...being lazy, but not to the extreme of some of my fellow first-year sloths. They scatter their trays with a dozen cups, few filled to the brim, most empty. No one has such a thirst. And if people do, they should see a doctor. That is, before our forests have vanished...
...named Daniel Drew delivered some livestock to the plutocrats Henry and John Jay Astor. On the last three days of the trip from Ohio to New York, Drew refused to let his cattle drink. Just before they clomped up to the weighing station, he let the animals slake their thirst at a shallow creek...