Examples of pork barrel in the following topics:
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- Congressional members will often attempt to maintain support with constituency members through practices such as pork barrel politics.
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- A company buys 10 contracts for petroleum that specifies a price of $75 per barrel.
- Each contract specifies 1,000 barrels.
- Who pays and how much into the margin account if the price of petroleum shoots up to $150 per barrel?
- You are holding 10 call options for petroleum with a strike price of $75 per barrel.
- Option premium equals $0.5 per barrel, and each contract specified a quantity of 1,000 barrels.
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- For example, although oil has traded at $147 a barrel, and may soon climb to $200, many analysts insist that the worst is yet to come.
- In 2009, the world consumed 86 million barrels of oil a day (up from 78 million barrels in 2002) and every year consumption increases.
- Between 1995 and 2004, for example, demand grew by 3.9 million barrels per year in the USA alone (currently, America consumes 25% of the world's oil production).
- China's demand grew by 2.8 million barrels annually during the same period) but there's no doubt that it (as well as India) needs to secure additional amounts every year to ensure economic growth.
- In November of 2007, he told a Wall Street conference, ‘I don't think we're going to see the supply [of oil] going over 100 million barrels a day...
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- For example, calculations for concentrated solar power, which uses mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto a fluid-filled container to produce steam that drives a turbine, is cost-equivalent to oil priced at $50 per barrel (before payback) – or as low as $20 per barrel (before payback) when the technology is scaled up.
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- You must buy oil for $80 per barrel that costs $70 in the future.
- Contract size is 10,000 barrels of petroleum with a contract price of $75 per barrel.
- Who pays the margin if the spot petroleum price equals $90 per barrel today?
- Who pays the margin if the petroleum price falls to $60 per barrel?
- If this contract matured today, then the seller would buy oil on the spot market for $60 per barrel and sell it to the buyer for $75, earning a large profit of $15 per barrel.
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- For example, humans face dangers from food-born illnesses, such as trichinosis from pork.
- A biologically adaptive strategy could emerge over many generations if humans developed immunity to trichinosis, but a culturally adaptive strategy could emerge more quickly if a group of people enforced a norm against eating pork.
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- A tapeworm is a parasite that causes disease in humans when contaminated, undercooked meat such as pork, fish, or beef is consumed.
- This diagram shows the life cycle of a pork tapeworm (Taenia solium), a human worm parasite.
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- A few common tapeworms include the pork tapeworm (Taenia solium), the beef tapeworm (Taenia saginata), and the fish tapeworm (Diphyllobothrium spp. ).
- Taenia solium, the pork tapeworm, infects both pigs and humans.
- Humans are typically infected by ingesting infected pork.
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- In 2000, India and Iraq agreed on an "oil for wheat and rice" barter deal, subject to UN approval under Article 50 of the UN Persian Gulf War sanctions, that would facilitate 300,000 barrels of oil delivered daily to India at a price of $6.85 a barrel, while Iraq oil sales into Asia were valued at about $22 a barrel.
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- The simplest type is known as a barrel vault.
- Barrel vaults consist of a line of arches in a row that create the shape of a tunnel.
- When two barrel vaults intersect at right angles, they create a groin vault.
- Concrete was used as the primary building material and barrel vaults provide structural support both as a terracing method for the hill and in creating interesting architectural spaces for the sanctuary.
- This diagram illustrates the structural support of an arch extended into a barrel vault.