Learned by Reading
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The 4,000 – acre North Fork Ranch, known for beautiful canyons and rock outcroppings, is bearing the brunt of the state’s insatiable thirst for energy.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Garrett’s grisly end illustrates yet another soaring cost of America’s unquenchable thirst for energy: Deaths among those working the nation’s oil and gas fields have risen at an alarming rate, The Associated Press has found.
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(: :)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
NBC chief environmental affairs correspondent Anne Thompson said on the June 25 “NBC Nightly News’ ’ that: “The world’s thirst for energy is creating an environmental crisis that could soon become a security crisis for the United States.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Illustrating the’ ’ soaring cost of America’s unquenchable thirst for energy,’ ’ at least 598 workers died on the job between 2002 and 2007 as the number of deaths per year has risen by around 70 percent.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Earn 8 % or More Energy income trusts Expect the world’s growing thirst for energy to keep oil – and – gas prices high.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
As energy producers have rushed to meet America’s unquenchable thirst for energy, fatalities among those working in the nation’s oil and gas fields have risen at an alarming rate in?
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(. ?)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The world’s thirst for energy is creating an environmental crisis that could soon become a security crisis for the United States.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
These critics of oil companies and oil sheiks continue to promote the illusion of an endlessly abundant and forgiving Nature, which is despoiled not by our combined global thirst for energy but solely by a thin layer of greedy profiteers, who can be punished or pushed aside thereby making the problem go away.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It’s got everything to do with India’s thirst for energy? two different types of energy to be exact, combining two different issues with two different Indian allies? but all the shit is going down at once!
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(. !)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Illustrating the’ ’ soaring cost of America’s unquenchable thirst for energy,’ ’ at least 598 workers died on the job between 2002 and 2007 as the number of deaths per year has risen by around 70 percent.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Garrett’s grisly end illustrates yet another soaring cost of America’s unquenchable thirst for energy: Deaths among those working the nation’s oil and gas fields have risen at an alarming rate, The Associated Press has found.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Garrett’s grisly end illustrates yet another soaring cost of America’s thirst for energy :
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(: :)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Also, the fossil fuels are finite and unrenewable energy source, it is estimated that our cumulative petroleum discoveries will have been used up within the next 40 years and the world’s thirst for energy seems insatiable.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
X ((3) Oil prices continue to drop; down $ 2 a barrel to $ 122 Oil prices tumbled more than $ 2 a barrel Tuesday, finishing at their lowest level in several weeks as a stronger dollar and beliefs that record prices are eroding the world’s thirst for energy sparked another dramatic sell – off.: – ?
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(. ?)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Garrett’s grisly end illustrates yet another soaring cost of America’s unquenchable thirst for energy: Deaths among those working the nation’s oil and gas fields have risen at an alarming rate, The Associated Press has found.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Is this the’ ’ magic bullet’ ’ to solve the world’s thirst for energy?
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(. ?)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Garrett’s grisly end illustrates yet another soaring cost of America’s unquenchable thirst for energy: Deaths among those working the nation’s oil and gas fields have risen at an alarming rate, The Associated Press has found.
(Parse)
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(: :)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
This part where Michael Steele enjoins Americans to “Drill Baby Drill’ ’ – likening our thirst for cheap energy to the uncontrollable, hedonistic, libertine, self-destructive frenzy of a disco inferno – was just freaky, but there’s no denying that this gesture resonates with many many voters.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
By the end of the 1950s, however, the vast American thirst for cheap energy had turned the United States into a net importer of oil; by 1970, US petroleum production peaked and began its irreversible decline as America’s oil reserves began skidding down the far side of Hubbert’s peak.
(Parse)
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(: ;)
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(. .)))
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