Word: oil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deep Throat then offered some other inside knowledge of the Organization's methods. He explained, for example, how the HDS cooks casually apply oil to various dishes. Neither of us could fathom The Organization's motive in greasing our pasta as if it were a wheel bearing rather than a plate of noodles...
Parodi, in a forum entitled "Latin America's Debt, Mixed Enterprises & Recovery," said that the bust in world oil prices earlier this decade has thrown Ecuador into a financial crisis, making it impossible for it to service its debt...
...first order bans foodstuffs not packaged in an "environmentally acceptable" manner and will go into effect on October 1, 1991. The second ordinance, which will go into effect immediately, will facilitate the proper disposal of used motor oil...
...beginning. In the next weeks and months, residents will have to cope with an array of symptoms that are increasingly recognized as the emotional legacy of mass disasters. Just like soldiers in combat and civilians in assaults, survivors of quakes -- as well as of floods, fires, plane crashes, even oil spills -- experience psychic upheavals so intense that their lives are shaken for years. In 1980 the American Psychiatric Association formally labeled such debilitating effects "post-traumatic stress disorder...
...often it is not enough. Says Susan Solomon, coordinator of the National Institute of Mental Health's emergency and disaster research program: "The thing that makes disasters particularly damaging is that the people you normally turn to for help are also victims." Many Alaskans affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill last March are finding professional help useful. In the three months after the accident, the number of people seeking assistance at the Valdez Counseling Center was three times the number who came during the same period in the previous year...