Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since the oil glut of 1986 have petroleum prices gone on such a wild ride. During trading last week, the futures price of crude fell below $16.50 per bbl. for the benchmark West Texas Intermediate, down more than $2 from the previous week and $5 since early March. While demand for oil usually softens during springtime, new calculations of the world's oil production have stunned commodity traders. Total output by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries exceeds 24.5 million bbl. per day, or 2 million beyond its agreed ceiling. At the same time, Saudi Arabia said it had discovered...
Walks on the Wild Side...
...before yielding five runs in the seventh on a combination of hits and errors. Meanwhile, Mizasko was pitching her sparkling one-hitter to pick up the win, striking out 11 while walking two. The Crimson managed to chalk up a run in the contest on three walks and a wild pitch, but Johnson's base hit was the only noise Harvard's bats made...
Born in Dublin, O'Connor watched her parents split up "quite violently" when she was eight. Her brother responded to the domestic tumult by "fainting all the time." O'Connor's sister began having extensive conversations with strangers in bus stations. And Sinead turned wild. She was busted for shoplifting and sent off first to reform school, then to boarding school. By the time her mother died in a car crash, her daughter hadn't seen her for nearly two years. "Her life never got better," O'Connor says, "and I suppose it was just as well that she died...
...opener started on a negative note when Harvard starter Julie Fromholz surrendered an unearned run to the Turtles on an error, a wild pitch, a balk and a sacrifice bunt in the first inning...