Word: winterize
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...this is hardly characteristic. Most of the time we don't know each other and the effect is less one of secret divulgence and more of trying to get work done in the cafeteria. My closed winter windows are little insulation: the rising volume levels that come with alcohol consumption more than compensate for a thin layer of glass--not to mention the efforts of nightly Tommy's pilgrimages, Fly partygoers and the 9 a.m. recycling crew...
...Enron, a Houston energy concern that buys and sells weather derivatives, says the concept emerged when companies' needs weren't being met by traditional insurance. "Insurance companies were saying, 'We can help you if a hurricane blows down your factory but not if it's 6[degrees] warmer this winter and your revenue drops,'" Clemmons says. The deregulation of the energy industry in 1995 meant that a new category of highly weather-sensitive businesses was suddenly forced to make a profit and became very interested in a product that could protect it from weather risks...
...utilities are not the only businesses using derivatives. In the winter of 1998, Montreal transportation-equipment giant Bombardier offered Midwestern buyers a $1,000 rebate on its Ski-Doo snowmobiles if a set amount of snow didn't fall that season. Bombardier backed the promise with a weather derivative, and with the help of other promotions, saw its Ski-Doo sales in the region jump 38% over the previous year's. "In a market driven 100% by weather, it's a little insurance for us and for the customer," says David Thompson, a Ski-Doo spokesman. This winter...
...Average retail price per gallon of heating oil--nearly double the price from last winter...
...Rollback in barrel production implemented last winter by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...