Word: barrelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Braak is a spectacular new find, but scarcely the only one. Other salvors are finding sunken treasure by using computerized navigational devices and techniques developed for oil exploration and military navigation. Magnetometers, often used to detect ferrous metals, can pinpoint such common shipboard fittings as iron nails, barrel staves and anchors...
...TYPICAL HARVARD STUDENT, who is already scraping the bottom of the barrel to plunk down $15,000 for a Harvard education this year, is increasingly finding occasion to fork over another $2,000 while he's at it. The personal computer bug has now officially bitten Harvard and while they aren't saying as much openly, the implicit message from Harvard officials is clear...
...purchase Los Angeles-based Carnation, the leading maker of evaporated milk, for about $3 billion, or $83 a share. The deal will produce the biggest non-oil takeover in history, and is expected to double Nestlé's business in the U.S. The transaction will provide a barrel of cash for the heirs of Carnation Founder Elbridge Amos Stuart, who own 35% of the firm...
...TYPICAL HARVARD STUDENT, who is already scraping the bottom of the barrel to plunk down $15,000 for a Harvard education this year, is increasingly finding occasion to fork over another $2,000 while he's at it. The personal computer bug has now officially bitten Harvard and while they aren't saying as much openly, the implicit message from Harvard officials is clear...
...superfluous fat," a hair restorer and remedies for rheumatism, asthma, heart disease and an "opium and morphine habit." The bulk of the 1897 edition is devoted to the essentials of late-19th century life, at prices that today are pure nostalgia. Shoppers could find a 200-lb. barrel of corned beef for $9, a 35-lb. wooden pail of gumdrops at $1.65 and a dozen 5-lb. pails of strawberry jelly for $6. Clothing included men's wool worsted suits for $6.50 and ladies' "walking and bicycle suits" for $6.75, topped off by a "very stylish...