Word: deposit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the spacecraft trained its radio scanners on the lunar south pole's deep Aitkin Basin, the reflected signal indicated that it had spotted just such an ice deposit. "If you collected all the ice scattered across that basin," said Dwight Dunston, a mission director, when the discovery was announced last week, "it would form a lake 16 ft. deep and four football fields around...
...casket showrooms to ensure that customers buy caskets with far better profit margins. At the same time, they cut their costs by buying caskets and other materiel de mort at volume discounts and by linking funeral homes in clusters that share hearses, embalming rooms and other services. You may deposit your late Uncle Harry in that luxurious if slightly creepy Colonial house on the corner, but these days you have no guarantee he will stay there. This centralization can increase the risk of administrative errors like the one that occurred recently in Arizona when an SCI cluster facility mistakenly cremated...
Could this remark have been made? Could a flight attendant, bending close to deposit a piece of spandex chicken on the tray of a nearby traveler, have overheard? Could she have passed the word along to her superiors? Could this have been used by the airline barons as an excuse for airlines to haul people from Philadelphia to Boston without a morsel...
Though Joe and Melanie Kelly, who have a plumbing-contracting business, claimed to have no idea where their son was, the FBI later seized evidence from the Kellys' home and safe-deposit box that showed that they had visited their son in Europe, that they had sent him money, and that Melanie had looked into getting Alex access to a $600,000 trust fund before he turned 21. Assistant district attorney Hudock has opted not to prosecute the Kellys for aiding their son because he fears that jurors will be sympathetic to parents desperate to help a child in trouble...
...EDUCATION] Favors vouchers for public, private and religious schools. Sees teachers unions as an obstacle to reform. Has proposed giving a tax credit for student loans and the chance to deposit $500 a year in tax-free accounts to save for tuition...