Word: gals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gasoline -- which costs about $3.75 per gal. throughout Europe -- Ross Perot was right. Phase in a 50 cents tax over five years, and you raise $50 billion a year. But it's voluntary, because, to avoid that tax, one need only drive more efficiently -- moving, five years from now, to a car that gets 28 m.p.g. instead of 20. (Not to mention taking the train, tuning the engine, or even choosing to live closer to work.) Side benefits: less pollution and a lower trade deficit...
...RELENTLESS DAYS, HUGE waves and strong winds mercilessly pounded the oil tanker Braer, grounded on the rocks of Fitful Head in the unspoiled Shetland Islands. Bit by bit, the cargo of 26 million gal. of Norwegian light crude leaked into the sea, turning it chocolate brown. On the seventh day, the pounding caused spouts of oil to gush spasmodically from deck hatches, making the tanker look like some pitiful beached whale blowing black blood in the throes of death. The following day the ship did die, splitting into at least three pieces and releasing all its remaining oil into...
...vigorous wave action worked as a high-energy cleanser of rocks and beaches. Thus the Shetlands are likely to be spared the costly and environmentally disruptive cleanup that followed the spilling of nearly 11 million gal. of crude (less than half the amount lost by the Braer) into Prince William Sound in Alaska. Says Robert Spies, chief scientist for the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council: "There is ample evidence that overzealous cleanup can be harmful." The chemical detergents, high-pressure sprays and brushes used to clean beaches and rocks after a spill destroy microorganisms that are an important part...
...special touch of hilarity to his performance as the love-stricken boy composer Adam Adam. The character is a sweetly doleful soul, but with a volatility that Javerbaum never quite conveys. This odd harmony of personalities is rounded out with an even-handed performance by Chris Scully as Alex Gal, Turai's very American collaborator...
Nutrition and hygiene must also be imported. The military will have to desalinate or purify every drop of water drunk by troops. Water consumption for a 16,000-member division is roughly 300,000 gal. daily. The troops have been immunized for a wide range of diseases, including yellow fever and typhoid, and truck-mounted pesticide sprayers are being brought in to do battle against flies and mosquitoes...