Word: weatherly
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Clearly, demand for oil didn't fall that much, but the price of oil isn't set by demand alone. It's the product of an extremely volatile mixture of speculation, oil production, weather, government policies, the global economy, the number of miles the average American is driving in any given week and so on. But the daily price is actually set - or discovered, in economic parlance - on the futures exchange. In late June and early July, speculators in oil futures battled one another, suspecting that a top was near. In the ensuing weeks, oil would come crashing down...
...example, it took more than a year of watching Obama play poker in "the Committee Meeting" - the nickname that Illinois state senators gave their regular, after-hours poker games - for legislator Denny Jacobs to notice Obama's occasional offhand references to Hawaii's nearly year-round 85-degree weather. "When we were down there in January and it was a blistering 2 degrees below zero, he would sit there and say, 'You know, if we were in Hawaii, we wouldn't have this problem,' " Jacobs says. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...whole. The GM crisis is raising once again the issue of how far the government should go in rescuing banks, insurance companies, mortgage holders, credit-card issuers and now carmakers. GM has no doubts about it. "Immediate federal funding is essential in order for the U.S. automotive industry to weather this downturn," GM president Fritz Henderson admitted to investors during a conference call in which GM announced a third-quarter loss of $2.5 billion...
...most importantly, it captures one of Reed’s sharpest live performances ever (he’s notorious for his spotty live shows). Backed by a large musical ensemble, Reed delivers his poetic lines with an enthusiasm equal to the task. And while his voice shows signs of weather from years of abuse, it doesn’t hurt the songs a bit. The recording quality is pitch perfect throughout, and many of the album’s most poignant moments have benefited from the long hiatus and new appreciation for the work. Take...
...West may have posed as Jesus in 2006, and Nas did it almost 10 years ago now, but British rap artist Mike Skinner (performing under the stage name The Streets) ushers in a new age of hip-hop evangelism. In his new video “Heaven for the Weather,” he is Dr. M. Skinner, motivational speaker and spiritual guiding light, out to “help people from all walks of life” find their way. Dr. Skinner has quite a following. His auditorium is packed with cheering fans. Devotees old and young, bearded...