Word: gal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dragged up the city's steep hills. "It is all we do. We look for water. We look for wood. We try to feed the family, and then we begin the process all over again," says one woman who has struggled up the embankment with a 10-gal...
...pipes again this week, but there will be no running water safe to drink for an additional three weeks or so. Meanwhile, residents seeking water for any purpose last week had to line up for supplies trucked in from outside and dispensed at 100 different locations (limit: 2 gal. to a customer); they were forbidden to enter office buildings because sprinkler systems could not protect them from fire. Downtown at times looked like a city under military occupation: deserted except for National Guardsmen who patrolled the streets while helicopters buzzed overhead. President Clinton, who toured flooded areas many times during...
Most people say they'd be willing to pay their share to cut the deficit, but then, when a share is proposed for them to pay, they go nuts. Like the woman I saw on TV, informed of the Senate's proposed 4.3 cents-per-gal. gas-tax increase, who looked into the camera and said it would kill her. Well, maybe she said, "It would be a killer." But the point was clear to any Congressman who happened to be watching: over her dead body...
...presumably, had taken the time to help her calculate what 4.3 cents per gal. means. To a typical driver (12,000 miles a year at 20 miles to the gallon), it means $25.80 a year. Why is this national news...
...Schroeder. Friends who have known Reno since her days as a chemistry major at Cornell, or as one of 16 women in a class of 500 at Harvard law, or as a powerhouse prosecutor in Miami, are amused at the caricature. "Everybody thought she was this li'l gal from the swamp," says longtime Miami friend Sara Smith. "They were patronizing her. Miami is a tremendously sophisticated city, and she had to do a remarkable balancing job in office. You don't go to Harvard and not take on some sophistication. I chuckle because they underestimated Janet...