A vegetable oil is a triglyceride extracted from a plant. The term vegetable oil can be narrowly defined as referring only to plant oils that are liquid at room temperature, or broadly defined without regard to a substance's state of matter at a given temperature.
Itâs the Reagan Economy, Stupid. This essay first appeared in the February 1, 2000 Washington Times. This week America crosses one of the great economic milestones in our nationâs history. We will officially break the record for the longest business cycle expansion in U.S. history. The previous record was 106 months in the 1960s.
A useful idiot is someone who, while zealously promoting one cause, ends up advancing a very different one through stupidity, naivete or inattention. The useful idiot never sees the big picture. Vladimir Lenin, the first Soviet dictator, is credited with coining the phrase, although according to P. Boller and J. Georges They Never Said It, hewellmost likely never said it. Not even in Russian. Whatever its origins, the phrase sometimes comes in handy. My first two experiences with radical feminists in academia didnt make much of an impact on me until later. The first was in Fall 1987 at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina.