Word: barreled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arizona Senator John McCain and his aide Mark Buse, the antipork specialist who ferrets out "ridiculous spending projects," a 21-gun salute for blocking pork-barrel appropriations. ROBERT G. ROWE Denver...
With your report on pork-barrel deals [CONGRESS, July 17], you ran a photograph showing large cone-shaped structures with white plumes pouring from the top. The casual reader may believe the plumes are smoke, noxious chemicals or radioactive by-products of nuclear power. In fact, the structures are environmentally safe cooling towers, not nuclear reactors. They cool water and produce a relatively harmless plume at the exhaust when the ambient air is colder and denser than the mist released by the evaporative process. RON WRIGHT, Project Manager Ceramic Cooling Tower Co. Fort Worth, Texas...
Though Harvard couldn't beat the top teams, however, it could certainly could whip the bottom of the barrel. There were the bi-annual decimations of MIT (two 15-1 scores), a sweep of B.C. (11-9 and 14-8) and wins over Yale (15-10) and Dartmouth (18-9) in the Ivy Championships...
...authorities will say only that all cases are under review. "You can't just move them lock, stock and barrel to the United States and separate them from their families forevermore," said a State Department official. "You have to find out where each child's family is and go and look for the family." That can be a long, difficult process, says the State Department, which hopes most of the children will be released from the camp by early July...
...hemisphere's last communist begins his evening with a martini. As he plucks the quintessentially American refreshment from the tray, Fidel Castro seems surprisingly muted. Or perhaps it is simply the mark of age: he is still a big man, trim and barrel-chested, but his 68 years are visible in the skin of his face, which is approaching the translucence of old parchment...