Word of the Day
For the next thirteen years, with indefatigable zeal he rummages the libraries for charts and details of the spice trade and Pacific voyages. -- Alan Gurney, Below the Convergence
In 1990 Iraq's Saddam Hussein aimed to corner the world oil market through military aggression against Kuwait; control of oil represented the acme of his ambitions. -- Richard Rosecrance, The Rise of the Virtual State