Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officers were all up at the supermarket, responding to the first shootings. Next on Drega's hit list was another Columbia selectman, Kenneth Parkhurst; Drega kicked down the door to Parkhurst's house and found nobody home. He returned to his own home and set it afire with diesel fuel he had purchased that day. Next Drega drove across the Connecticut River into Vermont, where he shot at a New Hampshire fish-and-game officer, Wayne Saunders. Fortunately, the bullet hit Saunders' badge...
...highest fuel prices of the summer are creating Labor Day gas pains for holiday commuters (Reuters) ... Muslim rebels have slaughtered 98 people, mostly women and children, in Algeria (TIME Daily) ... Just for a moment, the Mir crew lost their main oxygen generator, and "couldn't find it anywhere," according to mission control (Reuters) ... Big Tobacco may save money in State settlements (TIME Daily) ... Two thousand people march in New York to protest police brutality ... (Reuters) ... Non-citizen immigrants lose their food stamps Monday (TIME Daily) ... The Kennedy name loses its luster in Massachusetts as Joe drops out of the governor...
...nation's oldest commercial nuclear plant will close Friday, when operators at Michigan's Big Rock reactor lower the damper rods for the last time. Now comes the hard part: A five-year project to safely dismantle the reactor and dispose of some 442 bundles of spent uranium fuel at the site...
...year-old Carl Drega was planning another Oklahoma or World Trade Center bombing, authorities set fire to his barn late last night. The retired Drega, who went on a murder spree before being shot by police Tuesday, had bought 600 pounds of ammonium nitrate and 60 gallons of diesel fuel prior to his rampage ? the same ingredients used in America's worst terrorist attacks. He then stored them in his barn, which police feared he had booby-trapped. If Carl Drega was thinking of adding to his body-count from beyond the grave, his plans just went up in smoke...
...sign that consumers are worried about the world's fisheries could provide the jolt political leaders need. For the past half-century, billions of dollars have been spent by maritime nations to expand their domestic fishing fleets, subsidizing everything from fuel costs to the construction of factory trawlers. And until countries like Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Spain and, yes, the U.S. are willing to confront this monster of their own making, attempts to control overfishing are likely to prove ineffectual. The problem, as Carl Safina, director of the National Audubon Society's Living Oceans Program, observes...