Word: churns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explosive mountains in every corner of the world. Late last week, Alaska's Okmok volcano coughed a cloud of ash nearly a mile into the sky, perhaps presaging a period of increased volcanic activity. Near Mexico City, Popocatepetl, a 17,887-ft. volcanic peak, has begun to smoke and churn, threatening 500,000 people who live beneath it. In Italy five active volcanoes are being watched, the most menacing of which is the temperamental Vesuvius. In Japan 86 active volcanoes are packed onto an archipelago smaller than California. Other volcanoes sputter and steam in places as diverse as Ecuador...
Although the historic factory at 254 Mass. Ave. can churn out a total of 100,000 pounds of hearts per day--that's 48 million hearts--the factory needs to run year round to produce the 8 billion hearts sold in the six weeks before Valentine...
...YORK CITY: As a way of putting yourself through school, it beats flipping burgers. Still, it couldn't go on forever, and Tuesday, three Columbia University students and one accomplice were charged with counterfeiting after they used a University color copier to churn out $80,000 in fake $20 bills over the last six months. The copies the students turned out were so successful that local bars and businesses at first accepted them without question. They were finally detected in a bar last May and traced to a copier in the printing office of Columbia's Journalism school. The scheme...
...trees in your front yard. No, such a contraption--a stout monopole topped with a crown of antennas--doesn't yet mar my leafy corner of suburbia. But it will soon, unless I do something about it, and that prospect has spurred me, along with my neighbors, to churn out a torrent of letters, petitions and telephone calls. Why, we wonder, must Dallas-based PrimeCo Personal Communications plop its tower in a residential area of Du Page County, Illinois, when there are plenty of other sites nearby where it wouldn't be so conspicuous or so jarring...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "President Clinton is regulator-in-chief, leading an army of unelected bureaucrats whose sole job is to churn out red tape that destroys jobs and turns hardworking Americans into common criminals...