Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Similar despair was hitting small companies all over America. EZ Communications, a Fairfax, Va., broadcasting company with 15 radio stations, was expecting to raise $22 million in an initial public offering scheduled to take place the day after the market crash. Said Company President Alan Box: "These plans are now on hold for 60 days, six months, perhaps forever. We'll have to find other means of financing growth...
...fluorescens bacteria on winter wheat seeds during planting. It should be easy enough to tell whether the invisible microorganisms survive and spread: the Pseudomonas bacteria have been altered by genetic engineers to turn a brilliant shade of blue in the presence of a compound called X-Gal. Declares Benton Box, dean of Clemson's College of Forest and Recreation Resources: "The potential we now have for tracking a genetically altered organism in the soil offers a tremendous opportunity. I think this is going to be a breakthrough." Says Jane Rissler, of the Environmental Protection Agency's office of toxic substances...
...scandal started to unravel when junior James C. Jacobsen, the assembly vice president, privately confronted the president of the government, junior Kathryn E. Sampeck, with evidence that he said proved that she had stuffed a ballot box while working as a poll watcher in a campus cafeteria...
Included in the exhibition is an example of the more practical applications of the tangram. During World War I the popularity of this puzzle provided a manufacturer with a chance to help Allied prisoners escape; Red Cross care packages contained tangram puzzles in wooden boxes, many of which had a hacksaw, a compass, and a map concealed in a false wall of the box...
...immortal "geometric money" puzzle is one of the original types of this kind of puzzle. On first glance, it looks as though if you draw a diagonal line through a three-by-ten box and rearrange the pieces, you will wind up with a 32 square-inch field instead of a 30 square-inch field...