Word: catalysts
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Though OPEC seems invariably to profit from the suffering of its customers, the organization has hardly engineered the crisis from which it is benefiting. Instead, the group has merely been a catalyst, if a particularly jarring one, for economic changes that were bound to come. Petroleum prices have been going up because worldwide demand for oil has been increasing relentlessly while supplies have fallen. The cartel's policies have been designed to exploit the opportunity and earn a higher profit from petroleum sales...
...unavailable private papers of Whitman and his friends--available to him. At a time when America questions whether or not it is still the light of the world, it refreshes and reassures to discover a man who did beleive in the President as a redeemer, and democracy as a catalyst for love. A child of expansion and of manifest destiny, Walt Whitman embodied a sprit that no longer pervades the American consciousness. Kaplan revives Whitman and his dreams, revealing democratic vistas that have become blurred in our own time...
...rough play, in fact, directly accounted for the Crimson victory. With the score tied 1-1, 27 minutes into the first half, offensive catalyst Mauro Keller-Sarmiento broke for the goal, splitting the Yale fullbacks and dribbling directly out in front of the net to about the 15-yard mark...
...Neil brothers protests to the contrary, the BusBoys do stand for a new freedom for popular music. Any band that dissembles creative barriers as forcefully, funnily and finally as the BusBoys is bound to act as a catalyst for all manner of musical cross-fertilization...
...crowd of 200 didn't have to wait long for the next reason to clap their frozen hands, as Lance Ayrault put it in at 27:32. Offensive catalyst Mauro Keller-Sarmiento made a long run down the right sideline and sent a nice cross over the middle to Ayrault, who chipped the sphere in for his team-leading seventh goal of the season...