Word: gallons
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...three men gathered in a vacant lot in northeast Philadelphia. Moments before, a homeless and dying man named Gary had vomited. The stench and nausea were dulled only by exhaustion and the cold. Gary, wheezing noisily, his lips dripping with puke, was the last to drink from the half-gallon jug of Thunderbird before passing it on, but no one seemed to care. There was no way to avoid the honor of downing the last few drops. It was an offer to share extended by those with nothing, and there was no time to think about the sores...
...Republicans were in control of the Senate, Ronald Reagan was a popular president, and a gallon of gas cost upwards of $1.60 per gallon...
Besides paying homage to Wilson, True Stories also tips its dude-ranch ten- gallon Stetson to, among others, Glass and Meredith Monk, who choreographed the film's opening and closing tableaux. Byrne and Wilson will collaborate on The Forest, conceived as both a live opera and a film and scheduled for a Berlin premiere in 1988. Glass and Wilson joined forces on Einstein, the work that marked the avant-garde's uptown coming-out party at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1976, and earlier this year Glass released the album Songs from Liquid Days, which featured lyrics by Byrne, Anderson...
Even away from the hoopla, a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was selling for an average of 93 cents across the country, vs. $1.13 at the same time last year. Dan Lundberg, who puts out the Los Angeles-based Lundberg Letter on the gasoline industry, expects the price difference between this year and last for all types of gasoline to reach an average of 21.6 cents per gal. If that happens, Lundberg says, the U.S. will spend roughly $23 billion less for gasoline than last year's bill of $128.5 billion...
Tolman said environmental protection "cannot be overlooked much longer" and cited one gallon of gasoline's potential ability to contaminate 750,000 gallons of drinking water...