Word: conveyor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midst of green savannah stretching undisturbed for miles lumbers a Rube Goldberg-like contraption garnished with walkways, conveyor belts, pipes, vents and ducts. With squeaks, clicks, belches and groans, it lurches forward, a 40-ft.-tall wheel revolving at its side. The twelve buckets along the wheel's rim gouge out the earth and occasionally hurl wayward chunks of clay high in the air. Close by, groups of near-naked black tribesmen stand with spears in hand, staring in wonder...
...offer is accepted, the firm will have to install a computer-controlled file locator system and conveyor belts throughout the tunnels in order to turn them into a vault. Cost: an estimated $2million. Despite those expenses, subterranean storage is expected to cost only $1 per sq. ft., compared with up to $50 per sq. ft. for aboveground space...
...British warship since the days of sail-and among those eager to join family and friends will be a helicopter pilot named Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, 22, a veteran of numerous dicey adventures during the conflict. "I was airborne at the time the Atlantic Conveyor was hit," he recalls. "I saw it being struck by the missile, and it was something I will never forget. It was horrific." No doubt the young prince had quite a different reaction to the arrival of a gaggle of chorines, dropped aboard for a U.S.O.-style performance. Two of the dancers, Carole...
...shirt, this was his 44th Wimbledon. "It used to be a way of life," he said, "much more gentle. The whole atmosphere of the place is commercial now, and of course it has to be. Now it is a T-shirt factory that also produces a world champion: a conveyor belt, if you like...
Marshall, a fifth year graduate student who expects to receive his Ph. D. in Astrophysics next year, sees himself as both an organizer of graduate activities and a conveyor of student concerns to the administration. This spring he spent his spare time organizing GSAS intramurals, sending a delegation to Washington to protest proposed student loss cuts, and trying to convince administration officials that graduate students have many of the same social and counseling needs as undergraduates...