Word: gal
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...testimony, investigators connected Rifkin with the murders of at least 13 women. The bodies of Leah Evens, Anna Lopez and two others had been dumped in remote areas off highways on Long Island and in upstate New York. Three more unidentified women had been jammed into 55- gal. oil drums and submerged in local canals. The skeletal remains of another was found stuffed beneath a rotting mattress near Kennedy Airport. (Investigators located the remains only after Rifkin told them where to look.) Suddenly, a perpetrator had emerged for unsolved mysteries -- a body found two years ago in a steamer trunk...
...stretch of sea between Haiti and Cuba that sailors call the Windward Passage. They had left their homes in Petit-Trou-de-Nippes, a town of 1,000 perched on the shore of Haiti's impoverished southern claw, provisioned with only two bags of rice and a single 50-gal. barrel of water. Even at sea they continued to take on new passengers -- some arriving in dugout canoes, others by swimming. All were convinced that Dieu Veut was their only chance...
...with a new and ghoulish kind of pre-Fourth of July fireworks display. It won't, though. A SWAT team of FBI agents and New York City police burst into a garage in the borough of Queens at 1:30 last Thursday morning, catching five men hunched over 55-gal. barrels, swirling wooden spoons to mix fertilizer and diesel fuel into an explosive paste. The alleged bombmakers were hauled into court, some still wearing overalls splotched with what the local FBI chief called a "witches' brew." They and three others nabbed in raids on apartments, all described as Muslim fundamentalists...
...wins. But their combined effect broke the gloom that had pervaded the White House and fractured some of the gridlock in Washington. After weeks of intraparty wrangling, Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee agreed to a deficit-reduction measure that included a gasoline tax increase of 4.3 cents per gal. and a $68 billion cut in Medicare benefits over five years. While a vote in the full Senate and an ugly conference to reconcile differences with the House version still loom, the latest deal takes Clinton closer to making good on his promise to cut the deficit by $500 billion...
...President's budget plan cleared another hurdle when Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee struck a deal on new tax increases and spending cuts. They eliminated Clinton's $72 billion tax on all forms of energy, substituting a 4.3 cents-per-gal. motor-fuels tax that will raise just $24 billion over the next five years and tacked on a 2.8% increase in the capital-gains tax for the affluent. With the First Lady's very discreet acquiescence, the Senators also cut an extra $19 billion from Medicare beyond the $49 billion already sought by Clinton. Now the bill moves...