Most health and human development indicators have shown no significant improvement beyond that which is normal in the midst of an oil boom.

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We are now in the midst of the third great oil boom (the first two being 1973-74 and 1979-80).

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It is also in the midst of cutting back desperately needed oil supplies to countries in Eastern Europe such as Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Bulgaria by some 20-30 percent.

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For Russia to achieve similar performance in the midst of a growing world economy and high oil prices would be nothing short of shocking.

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The German Research Centre for Geosciences is in the midst of a more detailed assessment, backed by oil firms.

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The United States is in the midst of a miraculous supply boom that has seen domestic oil output soar by more than 1 million barrels per day in the past year to the highest levels in decades.

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