Word: gals
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...help extricate the nation from the thrall of the oil sheiks. Bush has been touting Jimmy Carter- like conservation pinpricks in recent weeks; the air conditioning in the White House has been turned down. But it would be very un-Bush to call for the 50(cent)-per-gal. gasoline tax that even some conservatives are supporting. In fact, it's far more likely that the next Grand New Policy Proposal will be another tax cut gussied up as tax "reform," perhaps even the abolition of the progressive income tax, replaced by a sales or flat tax. But that sort...
...relief" discounts or gas cards at inns nationwide. You can earn a gallon of gas for every bag of leaves collected from the lawn at the Hummingbird Inn in Goshen, Va. (up to a five-bag limit). The Kingsley House Bed & Breakfast in Fennville, Mich., is offering 2 gal. of gas (6 gal. maximum) for every gallon of apple cider or half bushel of apples you purchase at nearby Crane's apple orchards and Pie Pantry restaurant. And from November to March, the Inn at Cedar Falls in Logan, Ohio, will refund the price of a tank of gas (Sunday...
...year-old bridesmaid next summer. Twice. And not for an older sister, thrice divorced aunt, or former babysitter (the usual suspects), but instead, for two fellow Harvard gal pals. One graduated with the class of 2005, the other plans to walk with me in ’07. Your initial reaction, of course, is disbelief and despair: if the national divorce rate is pushing 50 percent, what are the chances a young couple could actually make marriage last in a society that entertains itself by watching “Desperate Housewives” and the Home Shopping Network. Don?...
...started two hours late because the Corps workers each had to get tetanus and hepatitis shots before re-entering the suppurating city. Once under way, we had to stop twice: once to wait for a flatbed with a fan boat to join the convoy and again because a 55-gal. vat of Industrial Blue All-Purpose Cleaner was slipping and threatening to slide onto the highway...
...water slowly recedes At the height of the flood, about 80% of New Orleans was under water. By Sept. 10 it was about 60% under water. More than 30 of the city's 148 pumps were running at reduced capacity, pushing 90,000 gal. per sec. out of the city...