Word: barrell
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...secret of the budget talks: House Republicans were no more willing than their opponents to support Darman's proposed cuts in health and retirement benefits and other ( federal entitlements. They bombarded Sununu's office with private pleas to protect special programs. They signed joint letters opposing cuts in pork- barrel programs. At one point, senior White House officials polled House G.O.P. members to see how many votes they could get for cuts of various sizes. "You know how much we raised from these guys?" a frustrated Bush aide asked in August. "To get 50% of the House Republicans to vote...
...been looking down the barrel of our enemy's gun, and Hitler had given us a chance to get out of the way. That was our justification for the pact, and it's still the way I see it today...
...Play hardball with the sheiks. Despite the popular perception that OPEC is no longer capable of enforcing price discipline on its members, a barrel of oil traded at more than twice its free-market price even before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. With two simple tools--stand-by gasoline rationing authority and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve--the U.S. could use its weight in the world petroleum market to bust OPEC once and for all. By merely threatening to curtail drastically its consumption and flood the world market with cheap oil, the U.S. could force the oil-fattened Gulf kingdoms...
Fahd's personal wealth, built on a fee levied on every barrel of oil extracted from Saudi land before 1980, is estimated at $18 billion, second only to the wealth of the Sultan of Brunei ($25 billion). He boasts at least 12 royal palaces, ranging from the $2.5 billion Al-Yamamah Palace complex in Riyadh to a "cottage" four times the size of the White House in Marbella, Spain. He owns several jets and yachts, all with gold bathroom faucets; his main yacht, a $60 million craft, is escorted by a vessel that carries Stinger antiaircraft missiles. His fleet...
...their part, the Khmer Rouge and the other factions may agree to elections as a tactical matter. But none of them have ever participated in a fair election, and the Khmer Rouge, at least, could never dream of winning one. For them, power can come only from the barrel...