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Friday, January 27, 2012

"Fracking": Is It A Dirty Word?

(AP)  
NEW YORK - A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic and political debate as controversial as what it defines.
The word is "fracking" — as in hydraulic fracturing, a technique long used by the oil and gas industry to free oil and gas from rock.
It's not in the dictionary, the industry hates it, and President Obama didn't use it in his State of the Union speech — even as he praised federal subsidies for it.

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