hurdle The biggest hurdle for Chevron will be getting the crude to market as production increases from 30,000 bbl. To 700,000 bbl. A day by 2010.

hybrid The TV-PC hybrid idea is attractive to computer makers,although most would prefer to add TV reception to their PC lines than into the TV business． hypocrisy Hypocrisy and selfishness seem to be the prevailing rules,complained Beijing's official China Daily.

infidelity If you rinse away its deliciously corrupt excitement, infidelity means the infliction of pain upon one's spouse for the sake of fresher pleasure.

instinct Now a dramatic discovery announced in the current Science suggests that the carnivores(dinosaurs)had a nesting instinct as well.

intuition Sequels,like blind dates,inspire a certain terror. We fear they will be losers;we suspect they will never measure up to past loves-and often intuition proves true． knack Conner also possesses a knack for compromise.

lag Japan is now determined to make up for its lag on the info highway and give the U.S. Some competition.

landscape Wallerstein took an ever growing readership through a dispiriting landscape of anger and grief,of children unable to fit in with peers, and young adults crippled in their own attempts at love.

legacy "He's much more comfortable with it, says a top aide,and he's come to the view that foreign policy will be an important part of his legacy.

legitimacy And royal legitimacy was conveyed by Princess Diana in the Caribbean surf.

lieutenant Gates had been warning his top lieutenants that the Net could change everything about the way people used computers,perhaps even the fact that they needed an＄89 copy of Windows to make their machines work.