Word: gal
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...battle that left 18 U.S. Army Rangers dead and 75 wounded has revealed that General Mohammed Farrah Aidid's loyalists used an ancient method to warn their comrades of the Rangers' attack -- they beat wooden sticks on drums, only in this case the drums were empty 50-gal. oil barrels. Followers of Aidid positioned at the Mogadishu airport began drumming when they saw the Rangers' helicopters take off, and as the message was heard, it was carried through the town by the same means...
Beethoven's fifth symphony with a disco twist. How can you go wrong? This groovy classical/disco magic was also released on the popular Saturday Night Fever album. Beethoven himself would have slipped into his lavender leisure suit, grabbed the gal closest to him, and funky-chickened his way across the dance floor...
...Popov's greatest challenge. Hang gliders weigh only 500 lbs., even if you include the pilot. A small Cessna, on the other hand, weighs more than 1,700 lbs., and a standard parachute big enough to float such a craft safely to the ground would fill up a 50-gal. drum. Not very practical. Undaunted, the BRS engineers figured out how to pack the parachute under pressure in such a way that it takes up no more space than a large briefcase and is mounted over the center of the wings. If the craft's engine conks or another plane...
...County lacked a courthouse that could accommodate the burgeoning stream of lawyers. An old building was converted to a courtroom just to house them. Although a number of corporate defendants have settled with plaintiffs, the site has never been cleaned up; it still contains a residue of 34 million gal. of toxic waste...
...financial establishment's doomsayers -- the methodology of Clinton's deficit reduction is very much his own. Tax "fairness" (to use the President's word) is real. Nearly 80% of the increases fall on the top 1.2% of taxpayers, a refutation of supply-side theory. The 4.3 cents-per-gal. hike in gasoline taxes can be criticized as a broken promise since it hits the middle class hardest, but given that the typical driver will pay only about $33 more , a year, the burden is hardly staggering. The tax-rate increase on Social Security benefits for the wealthiest recipients (from...