Word: hauled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wishes, by a two-thirds vote of participating nations. A top State Department official insisted that the U.S. "made every possible effort and then some" to strike a compromise, but gave up after most of the other nations refused to budge. The U.S. mining industry, which anticipates a rich haul of minerals such as manganese, cobalt and nickel from the seabed, was elated. Proclaimed Jeffry Amsbaugh, president of Ocean Mining Associates, a Virginia-based consortium: "It's just not a good deal...
...years to construct the Pyramid of Khufu, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Yet merely to level and grade Jubail's 66-sq.-mi. industrial park, a sector that comprises less than 15% of the entire city, engineers have had to shovel up and haul off 370 million cubic meters of sand-enough to fill the Khufu Pyramid 160 times over. If the landfill were used to construct a two-lane road, it would more than girdle the earth at the equator...
Over the long haul, however, getting Jubail to work and function as a thriving industrial metropolis could turn out to be every bit as challenging as building the city. For one thing, Jubail's planned industries will be cranking out a prodigious supply of basic industrial products that many experts argue the world has too much of already...
Hermos described the continued battle as having shifted focus but predicted that "on a longer haul, it's going to go on well beyond my lifetime
...Mandy saw the picture at her home in Tidworth, Hampshire, she remarked, "He never says no to a nice cuppa. "Tractors and Land Rovers have been offered freely to the troops to lug equipment to nearby hills. An 18-year-old boy used his father's tractor to haul gear from the shore. Another boy told the soldiers, "If you want to borrow my Suzuki, go right ahead...