Mastoiditis is the result of an infection that extends to the air cells of the skull behind the ear. Specifically, it is an inflammation of the mucosal lining of the mastoid antrum and mastoid air cell system inside the mastoid process.
Extract: Government spending has increased substantially in recent years. Consequently, the breakeven oil price rose to $106 a barrel in 2014 from $69 a barrel in 2010. As a result, with the large decline in oil prices, the fiscal deficit has increased sharply and is likely to remain high over the medium-term.
unprecedented cost of crude oil. As a case in point, during the same four-year period that the price of a ton of East Coast binder went from $180 to $422, the spot price for benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude oil spiraled upward from $37 per barrel to $120 according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency.s an illustration, the price for perfor-mance-graded PG64-28 asphalt binder on the East Coast market climbed from $180 per ton in April 2004 to $422 per ton in April 2008, according to the As-phalt Weekly Monitor produced by Po-ten Partners Inc. And this was the price at the termi-nal.