1.   Inability to buy oil is widely interpreted to mean inability to sustain even the very low level of industrialization already achieved.

2.   American companies are permitted to buy oil from Iran, but they may not resell it in the United States.

3.   An employee of the company buying the oil takes about a half-dozen readings and measurements.

4.   As a result, he said he was forced in July to start turning away customers seeking to buy oil on contract and lock in a budgeted monthly price.

5.   A presidential order prohibits the United States from buying oil from Iran as well Libya.

6.   A typical trading ploy in recent weeks has been to sell gasoline futures and buy heating oil.

7.   A typical trading strategy in recent weeks has been to sell gasoline futures and buy heating oil.

8.   All contracts to buy Iraqi oil will have to be submitted to a U.N. panel for approval.

9.   But a little later, when she complains that the husband forgot to buy cooking oil, he flies into a fury and begins hitting and kicking her.

10.   But every day the subsidiaries are still allowed to make a mockery of the U.S. embargo by buying Iranian oil and selling it outside the United States.