When there are shortages of products (oil, office space, bandwidth, emerging-market equities, whatever), prices rise and the people who produce these things grow rich.
Bars of olive-oil soap share counter space with piles of lokum (Turkish Delight) and slabs of amber-hued honeycomb.
Zach McCue of Clean Ocean Action, a coalition of more than 130 environmental organizations in New Jersey and New York, said the manufacture of thin-film plastic bags consumes millions of trees and barrels of oil, takes up space in landfills for a long time and is harmful to marine life, especially birds and sea turtles that ingest the bags, or pieces of bags, or get entangled in them.
Space travel and oil rig work are not jobs for the feint of heart or the risk averse.
As we have done successfully in diverse areas from space flight to oil cleanup, an incentivized competition could drive privately funded research and result in innovative, orthogonal solutions.
The pancakes should cook in about 2 inches of oil, enough so there is space for them to bob about.
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Marginally cheaper oil supposedly affords them to the political space to do so.
The British oil firm has subleased 70% of total space to Woollahra City Council.
The report insists that, in hand with a combination of energy efficiency and fuel-switching measures, this growth in electricity production would be enough to supplant all fossil fuel use (coal, gas and oil), including that for transport and space-heating.
The Mediterranean diet is characterized by a nutritional model that has remained constant over time and space, consisting mainly of olive oil, cereals, fresh or dried fruit and vegetables, a moderate amount of fish, dairy and meat, and many condiments and spices, all accompanied by wine or infusions, always respecting beliefs of each community.
Meanwhile, astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station have said they could see the oil spill while passing over the Gulf of Mexico.
Indeed, as we explored in this space last week, federal acreage has enough oil and gas to put a big dent in U.S. oil imports.
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Guyana has problems, too, with Venezuela , which has revived a claim to almost half its territory, including the site of a recently granted concession for a private space port and what may be large offshore oil reserves.
Both agree that geology is a strong card: there is thought to be enough space to store billions of tonnes of carbon in empty oil and gas fields alone, and far more in subterranean salt caverns.
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The set, by the team of the front-row guest Rem Koolhaas, gave the first clue: a space like an industrial street, with the effect of oil spills, heavy metal pillars and abstract cars in pastel pink colors.
Given the number of shale plays, the delta between natural gas and oil, and proximity to consumer markets, they may find a profitable niche in this space.
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He served on the boards of several companies, including Marathon Oil, Learjet, Cinergy, Taft Broadcasting, United Airlines, Eaton Corporation, AIL Systems, Thiokol, and Space Industries International, a company that I co-founded.
In Houston, where the oil bust of the mid-1980s led to see-through buildings devoid of tenants, brokers are wary of space proliferating in the "energy corridor, " running along Interstate 10 from western Houston toward the suburb of Katy.
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