Word: barrelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Driving north along construction-filled Putnam at about 8:45 a.m. Holt had attempted to skirt around a barrel with...
...been deprived of perhaps $250 million in taxes on the 3.4 billion gal. of gas a 55 m.p.h. speed limit is said to save annually. Admits Colorado State Representative Bob Stephenson: "Money drives this issue." Perhaps. Yet it is mostly the myth that citizens have some divine right to barrel down the highway unfettered by law or prudence that makes a good idea seem dangerously unAmerican...
...been a long time since the 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries were unable to sell every barrel of crude they pumped, or since oil companies such as Exxon, Mobil Oil and Gulf Oil suffered from declining profits and bulging inventories. But that is precisely the situation in the suddenly upside-down world oil market. Skyrocketing prices and sagging demand have brought on a continuing petroleum mini-glut...
Because of its short (1¾-in.) barrel the model RG 14 revolver that Hinckley used cannot be sold legally in the Miami area. The one that Hinckley bought, serial number L731332, was shipped by Southern Gun distributors of nearby Opa-Locka, Fla., directly to Rocky's Pawn Shop on Elm Street in Dallas. This cluttered emporium, only a quarter of a mile from the site where President John Kennedy was shot 17 years ago, has a sticker on the door that reads GUNS DON'T CAUSE CRIME ANY MORE THAN FLIES CAUSE GARBAGE. In the window...
...being * when the slug tore into Reagan's left side. She has spent the week visiting hospital rooms-the President's and those of the three men shot with him. She has been consoling Sarah Brady, knowing that a slight change in the angle of the gun barrel could have laid Reagan as low as Jim Brady, or worse...