Word: craned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bankers have gone beyond just turning down new applicants. They have also cut the credit lines of current customers. American Crane Co. of Wilmington, North Carolina, a thriving manufacturer and exporter of mobile crane gear, ran into that problem when its bank cut the firm's $10 million credit line by $1 million. Then one of American's important distributors was forced to shut down completely when another bank decided to cancel that company's credit line entirely. "Banks are just not giving us the breathing room we need," says American CEO Bob Cumming. "The banks themselves will not talk...
Borrowing key lines from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood ("It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.../ Won't you be my, won't you be my funky neighbor?"), lead singer Whitfield Crane cleverly adds disgusting bodily sound effects to his "Eeewwww gross" lyrical portrayal of the neighbor no one wants...
Mokele Mbembe could hardly create more of a stir than we do in this previously undisturbed land. Gorillas stare and scream at us, and sometimes charge, but almost never run away. Colobus and cercopithecus monkeys crane their necks to eye us from high tree branches. Gloriously fat wild pigs, elsewhere the favorite game of hunters, look up from their rooting and peer at us calmly through the low brush for several minutes before moving off toward new forage...
...Crane, the star of TV's Hogan's Heroes, was bludgeoned to death in his bed in Scottsdale, Ariz. The crime remained unsolved for 14 years, until investigators re-examined a thread of brain tissue found in a rental car. Last week they arrested John Henry Carpenter, a video-equipment salesman, and charged him with the murder, which he denies. Forensic scientists matched the tissue with a sample from Crane's bloody pillowcase. Complained Carpenter's attorney: "How the flesh sample was overlooked for 14 years is beyond...
...timber sales on various federal lands in Oregon -- despite warnings from biologists that the sales pose a threat to the northern spotted owl. It is only the second time in the act's 19-year history that an exemption has been granted. (The previous case involved the whooping crane and a Wyoming dam project...