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.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), a former actor and California governor, served as the 40th U.S. president from 1981 to 1989. Raised in small-town Illinois, he became a Hollywood actor in his 20s and later served as the Republican governor of California from 1967 to 1975.Dubbed the Great Communicator, the affable Reagan became a popular two-term president.uring Reaganâs early childhood, his family lived in a series of Illinois towns as his father switched sales jobs, then settled in Dixon, Illinois, in 1920. In 1928, Reagan graduated from Dixon High School, where he was an athlete and student body president and performed in school plays.