Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...land, which has, outside of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., perhaps 20% of the world's phosphates. All last week a fleet of nearly 8,000 trucks rumbled toward Tarfaya, Morocco's southernmost city, with cargoes that included 42,580 tons of water, food and fuel, along with blankets and tents. Overhead, army helicopters scattered back and forth watching for emergencies, as the never-ending column rolled through its own cloud of red dust. At night the motley army dozed in blankets or thick djellaba robes, with hoods pulled over their heads, and charcoal braziers glowed brick...
...Hoskins, the drawbacks of the report were its timing and lack of promotion. The university had just discovered that because of economic conditions, it couldn't do whatever it wanted any more, she says. One of the discussions the report sparked was over the university's skyrocketing fuel oil bills, she adds...
...country fetched $37,000 in 1973, an alltime record for a presidential letter. The highest price ever bid for a letter may be $51,000, the sum paid in 1927 for a routine communication by Button Gwinnett, one of the obscurest signers of the Declaration, whose rare autograph helped fuel the bidding at last week's auction...
...some members of the faculty, as well as some students and administrators, say that studies such as McClelland's, in which variables and measures are defined rather loosely, only succeed in adding fuel to the hardline attitudes involving women prevalent among illustrious members of the Harvard community...
...which has been on the books since World War II. Because landlords in many instances cannot raise rents enough to cover costs, they simply walk away from unprofitable buildings, leaving them in the hands of the city, which can scarcely afford to rehabilitate them or even maintain them. With fuel costs high and climbing, abandonments are bound to accelerate. Real estate tax delinquencies are also ominously rising; they reached $220 million in fiscal...