James Mulva disputed the very notion that anyone in the "black gold" business was getting disproportionately rich.
Black pepper is considered to be black gold, and was once exchanged for gold as a barter.
Brandy wore a tight black dress with gold overlay and matching black and gold bag and shoes.
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Moreover, despite a lot of scaremongering, the geological evidence suggests that there is still plenty of black gold in the ground.
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The phone is set in 18 karat black gold and was created using close to 1, 400 little diamonds weighing about 15cts VVS1.
Then Fed actions inspired a mini version of the 1970s-early- 1980s inflation, and the price of black gold gushed up once more.
While he wasn't able to introduce me to anyone willing to part with their Black Gold, he agreed to let me peruse his personal collection.
With the invention of the gas-fueled automobile in 1901, black gold became the drug of choice, and its ascent marked the coming of Big Oil.
But gradually the flood of black gold undermined all good intentions.
Elements include polished white, pink or black gold paired with themselves, or alternated with precious elements enhanced by white brown or black diamonds, or with iolite and tsavorite.
Professor Rajan Gerta, from Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala, said that there are many references to "ships coming with gold, and going back with 'black gold'" - pepper.
But the revenue from Angola's black gold won't last forever.
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Fracking makes possible practical access to all that black gold.
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His predecessor, John Browne, was in many ways a remarkable chief executive, a man who sprinkled pixie dust onto the company's black gold while also boosting its market capitalisation ninefold.
The author begins his travels in Nigeria, where Royal Dutch Shell started off Africa's relationship with the modern oil industry by striking black gold in the Delta region in 1958.
Some 65% of Saudi electricity is generated using black gold, even as successive price shocks and the relative inefficiency of oil generation have seen it all but phased out in rich countries.
In "Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta, " Ed Kashi captures the impact of the oil industry on Nigeria's environment and people since it was first discovered five decades ago.
But, oil is no longer black gold.
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The thing that made Marina B designs groundbreaking in its time and what makes them a product of the modern era is the use of color. 18k yellow and black gold is matched with an array of colored gemstones.
The decor was sheek, featuring black and gold elements with the sophisticated NFL Honors logo.
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If you were a fan of Slacker's old-school black and gold aesthetic, you can mourn its passing today.
Black and gold paraphernalia is flying off the shelves at Beads by the Dozen, said store owner Dan Kelly.
Even though oil accounts for 2% of electricity production in this country--a negligible amount--the high-flying solar sector rallied on the back of black-gold's gains.
My favorites were the red gowns, fiery like the passion of Latin lovers, and the black ruffled gown paired with an intricately embroidered black and gold matador jacket.
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The annual Trevithick's Dance leaves Basset Street at 2.30pm with almost 100 adults dressed in the traditional Cornish colours of Black and Gold, dancing behind Camborne Town Band.
"We're black and gold and proud of it, " he said.
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With his permanently tousled hair, dark eyebrows and pupils of black or gold ("It's the phosphorescence, " he sort-of explains), Pattinson comes in somewhere between Prince William and one of the more manly Greek gods.
In homage to the Surrealists, Louboutin once created a pair of pumps with a hydrodynamic shape, a bulging eye above the pinkie toe, and tessellating rows of black and gold scales the foot as a fish.
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