The wood absorbs about 3 gallons of spirit, now we have headspace in the barrel and air gets pulled in, which we love.
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The barrel heats up as a result of the hot expanding gases in the barrel and the friction from the bullets that are propelled by these hot gases along a helical path inside the barrel.
Peterson said auditors like Warren basically were hired to find the bad apples in the barrel and pull them out: borrowers with payments they couldn't afford, houses with inflated appraisals, people lying about their income.
Half sobbing, half smiling, she explained that she had written the postcard to herself and our lack of comprehension of the Icelandic language resulted in us missing a key element scribbled on the top right-hand side of the postcard: that it should be left in the barrel until she could return to get it.
The system, which can run over video cameras in the gun barrel or on the soldier's helmet, will notify users when someone who was present previously turns up at the soldiers current location, which should help them identify trouble makers.
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In April, the 250 million barrel Skrugard oil discovery was made in the Barents Sea, and the 150-300 million barrel Peregrino South oil field was discovered offshore Brazil.
But then he does something unique in the world: While the rums start in the traditional fashion, produced in local distilleries and barrel-aged in the tropical sun, they are plucked from their country of origin at just the right moment and brought to the Ferrand estate in France, where they are refined for several more months in small French oak Ferrand cognac barrels.
Natural gas was selling in the teens then, in roughly a 1:6 ratio to the energy value in a barrel of oil, and pricing was proportionate.
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In 1999, when the barrel-chested Marine recruiter showed up in dress blues and bedazzled my son John, I did not stand in the way.
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What does it mean to have what some people would call crab-in-the-barrel syndrome?
Long before vast numbers of such Flexible Fuel Vehicles are on the roads, the OPEC cartel-induced speculative bubble that has contributed to the recent run-up in the price per barrel of oil will be lanced.
He also wants the Energy Department to release the 2 million barrel petroleum stockpile in the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve.
Then, Bud Shuster, the controversial House Transportation Committee chairman and author of one of the biggest pork-barrel spending bills in the history of Congress, had to leave his chairman post.
His little brother, Burris, stood in the driveway with a finger in one of his ears, peering down the barrel of a cap pistol while he pulled the trigger repeatedly.
The bottlenose dolphins were moving in several groups of 15 to 20, their dorsal fins and barrel shaped torsos flashing in the sun as they came up for air.
The big question of course is, will that work and will it hold the slide in the cost of a barrel of oil?
But California now has a low-carbon fuel standard that takes account of the amount of carbon dioxide released in the delivery of a barrel of oil to market.
Members of Opec, made up of the world's major oil producers, have come under pressure to do something to stop the recent sharp rises in the cost of a barrel.
One simple focused step: unleash natural gas and you can move the needle in million-barrel-per-day increments at a price and in a time-frame that nothing else on the table can.
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What about the contango effect (when the price of a barrel of oil for delivery in six months is higher than an identical barrel bought on the spot market today)?
In the most recent quarter, Cracker Barrel posted a 0.2% increase in comparable store traffic, with a 3.3% increase in same-restaurant sales.
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Since 1999, the five-fold increase in the number of dollars it takes to buy a barrel of oil has simply caught up to the five-fold increase in the number of dollars it takes to buy an ounce of gold.
Sources of foreign oil are unreliable, as is the price: with every international crisis, especially in the volatile Middle East, the cost of a barrel of oil soars.
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But dismissing this remedy out of hand ignores the very real pain, fear and anger felt by recent college students as they stare down the barrel of huge student loan payments in the worst job market since the Great Depression.
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The Socialist candidate, Bernard Barrel, who will run in the forthcoming election, is all about supporting local employers.
Then there's oil, and after the wild fluctuations in 2008, the setting of the price per barrel also came under scrutiny.
The cost of a barrel of oil doubled in a year after the Islamic revolution.
Lawyers for the home secretary claim Abu Qatada is "scraping the barrel" in his attempts to avoid deportation.
Firemen, wearing breathing apparatus, dug a hole in the sand and turned the barrel over into the larger container.
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