Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McCardell's departure was politely termed a "resignation" by company officials, but the actual decision to dump him was made at a two-hour weekend meeting of the firm's 16-member board of directors. International Harvester has been under intense pressure from banks and other lenders, to which it owes $4.2 billion, and the company's creditors are widely thought to have played a key role in forcing McCardell out. Says William A. Goldstein, executive vice president and analyst for the Chicago investment brokerage firm of Burton J. Vincent, Chesley & Co.: "Despite their denials, the banks...
...John Stearns (their catcher) doesn't get hurt, if the pitching holds up, and if someone nukes the Pirates to make sure they are really dead, but somehow I blurted out. "They'll probably take the Series in six." In the course of my overzealous proclamation. I managed to dump the ashtray again. I was thrashing, but how long were the Mets going to be three games over 500 anyway. Later my bed was spinning when I finally found...
...David Joaquín Quinteros, 42, a father of five, died at the Policlinica Hospital a mile away. Quinteros, a member of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), had been abducted the night before as he left a restaurant. Two hours later, he was found in a garbage dump with bullets in his arms, back and skull. He lived for another twelve hours before becoming the latest victim in San Salvador's circle of death and mourning. The assailants were unknown...
...uninitiated, full-scale coal-mining is an incredible sight. Two hundred feet below where the hillside was a few years ago, dump trucks bigger than houses haul 175-ton loads of rock. The Martiki mining operation is centered around the "Mountain Mover," a power shovel about the size of a small airplane hanger. The shovel's huge bucket--which can easily hold a pickup truck--takes 76-cubic-foot bites out of the mountain 24 hours...