Word: arabize
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...producing at full capacity, trying to catch up with after decreasing production in line with the 1997 financial crisis. There is a worldwide oil shortage, and America is feeling the effects far less than most countries. America has the lowest gas prices in the world except for the United Arab Emirates. Any more shocks to oil production--such as aggression by Saddam Hussein, cuts in production by Iraq or other OPEC member nations, or natural disaster--could lead to a full-blown oil crisis reminiscent...
...slaves are brought to different sites throughout the border area where the organization fingerprints and photographs each one after paying the Arab redeemers a flat rate for their service...
...Strategic Petroleum Reserve was created in the wake of the Arab oil embargo of the '70s, meant to keep the oil-dependent U.S. from being held hostage by Middle East ne'er-do-wells. It's been tapped only once for pricing reasons - at the start of the Gulf War in 1991 (itself largely a price-control maneuver) and then only, in the end, for 17 million barrels. Now the use of the SPR has officially been expanded - in the cause of keeping Northeasterners' homes heated at affordable prices in an election year...
...Their final plan is to concede to the Palestinians' demand for a flight out to an unnamed Arab country and then to ambush them at the airport. Except that the "snipers" had neither the training nor the equipment for the job, and the four policemen deployed aboard the airliner "vote among themselves" to abandon the operation for lack of confidence in their own abilities, only seconds before their targets arrive. The snipers aren't in radio contact, haven't been preassigned targets, and are told that there are four rather than eight terrorists. And someone forgot to order...
...cause to the world's attention. And it's hard to not to understand his gruesome thinking, even in these post-Oslo days of mutual recognition. It's noticeable that in all of the footage from 1972, the word "Palestinian" is never used. The gunmen are described simply as "Arab." Indeed, at the time of Munich, the Palestinians were still a forgotten people and Israeli prime minister Golda Meir was notoriously insisting they did not exist. Vilified throughout the Western world, his slain comrades were nonetheless given a heroes' burial by thousands of supporters in Libya. For Spitzer...