Word: cubical
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While WT 15000 has the beetled brow, small cranium (700 to 800 cubic centimeters, about half that of modern man) and short forehead associated with virtually all human precursors, his size surprised the scientists. From the development of his teeth, they knew that the hominid died in his youth, about age twelve. But the length of his thigh bones and the size of his vertebrae indicate that he stood about 5 ft. 4 in. tall and may have weighed as much as 150 lbs. This was the size hitherto postulated by scientists for a full-grown Homo erectus...
...Crusaders started off strong in the best-of-five match Led by Lynn Norman and Captain Kim Cubic, they roared to a 15-8 first game victory...
...Defense Department and most of the President's staff, out of genuine outrage but also because of a reflexive belief in the power of the public relations gesture, urged sanctions. To the advocates of this policy, the trans-Siberian pipeline-designed to carry up to 20 billion cubic meters a year of natural gas 3,300 miles from Siberia to Western Europe-was just the sort of highly visible issue that would focus and dramatize Western reaction...
...century," but in the West it is better remembered as an unnecessary source of tension between the U.S. and Western Europe. The Reagan Administration vigorously opposed European plans to help build and finance an $18 billion, 2,759-mile pipeline designed to deliver up to 20 billion cubic meters a year of natural gas from Siberia to Western Europe. The U.S. not only barred American companies from working on the project, but it imposed economic sanctions (suspended five months later) against West European participants. But as the U.S. and its allies squabbled, the Soviets kept on building. Indeed, according...
Thousands of cubic feet of waste are currently shipped to disposal sites far from the campuses, at costs exceed to exceed $1 million in the 1983-1984 year...