Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...basis of canola's virtues, American sales have doubled over the past two years, though canola still accounts for only 2.3% of all oils consumed in the U.S. Four years ago, Procter & Gamble converted its Puritan cooking-oil line from a soy-sunflower blend to 100% canola. Earlier this year Dean Foods, a Virginia-based company, rolled out a margarine rich in canola. Next year Frito-Lay plans to introduce SunChips, corn chips fried in canola oil. This surge of interest has caused a boomlet in Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana, where growers are starting to plant acreage...
...Kippur War and the Arab embargo brought on the first oil shock in 1973. Venezuela squandered billions of petrodollars on luxury imports, high- visibility public works and a bloated state bureaucracy. When oil prices fell in the early 1980s, Venezuela retreated behind a wall of protectionism and a popular though inefficient system of price supports for local products...
TUNE IN TOMORROW. Like the soap operas it parodies, this broad comedy teases more than it delivers in its tale of a blowsy woman (Barbara Hershey), her avid nephew (Keanu Reeves) and a radio writer (Peter Falk) who loves mischief and hates Albanians. A savory score by Wynton Marsalis, though...
...operator went on to say that she thought Kerry was too liberal to win but the governor's race was too close to call. "I hope it's not Silber though," she added...
Other B.U. students said, though, that it wouldbe a good idea for Silber to leave...