Word: conveyor
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...remains fuzzy; he seems to project virtually no identity beyond that of being Harding's on-again-off-again spouse. The youngest of six children, Gillooly is a high school graduate who has been a lifelong resident of the Portland area. Fellow workers at his last job, on a conveyor line at the Oregon Liquor Control Commission warehouse in Portland, say Gillooly was an average guy and an average worker. His supervisor, Ron Marcoe, says Gillooly quit. "He started out good, but it deteriorated," says Marcoe. "It happens. It's boring work...
...strategy is not working. On his European trip to sell a tougher Bosnia policy, "Christopher's delivery was monotone, almost machine-like, leaving the impression that he had no views one way or the other," says a senior British diplomat. "He appears to be a conveyor of information, not a decision maker," an opinion echoed by U.S. legislators about his Capitol Hill performances. A subordinate likens Christopher's role on the top-level principals committee, which has met frequently to set policy on Bosnia, to that of a "good fielder, lousy hitter" -- sound but uninspired. Richard Haass, a National Security...
...malady she was spared was self-pity. Sue held her own at jacks and hide- and-seek, and later sneaked Viceroys with Nan behind the drugstore instead of going to Mass. She was the one with the sense of humor, memorizing the candy-on-a-speeded-up-conveyor-belt episode from I Love Lucy; the one who was tone-deaf but couldn't care less, belting out Cross Over the Bridge, the Patti Page rouser, at top volume...
...corporation that is now the largest private employer in America does not have any smokestacks or conveyor belts or trucks. There is no clanging of metal on metal, no rivets or plastic or steel. In one sense, it does not make anything. But then again, it is in the business of making almost everything...
...Colorado, where temperatures are very cold (snow crystals bond most readily close to their melting point). The shape of the crystals is important too. A layer of graupel -- soft hailstones that behave like miniature ball bearings -- substantially increases the avalanche hazard. In essence, graupel provides a high-speed conveyor belt for the layers of snow deposited on top. Another kind of trouble comes in the guise of sugar snow -- coarse grains created when water vapor freezes and refreezes. In Colorado a layer of sugar snow formed early in the season, and has greatly added to the risk...