Category: words
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High Prices or Words Have Meanings
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ETHANOL_REFINERIES?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Oil industry scales back refinery plans</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A push from Congress and the White House for huge increases in biofuels, such as ethanol, is prompting the oil industry to scale back its plans for refinery expansions. That could keep gasoline prices high, possibly for years to come.<br />n<br />nWith President Bush calling for…
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Words
I came across a story yesterday that caught my eye. It mentioned that the "Word of the Year" for the The New Oxford American Dictionary is Carbon Neutral. Not very exciting if you ask me and didn't excite me very much. I went to the <a href="http://blog.oup.com/oupblog/2006/11/what_do_al_gore.html">story about it</a> and again was not excited but…