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But the Soviet Union’s aging communist leadership, encouraged by the OPEC-generated oil-price explosion and the discovery of massive hydrocarbon reserves in western Siberia, took a different tack, using natural-resource revenues to finance continued military expansion.

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She marched into the oil field reserves, surrounded it, without firing a shot, and secured it and held it.

A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths."

And as we speak now, we have about 40 billion dollars in reserves due to proper management of our finances.

This is the Alberta tar sands, the largest oil reserves on the planet outside of Saudi Arabia.

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