Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have one of the cart's four keys, to which supposedly only the chief teller, his supervisor and a few bank officers had access. The thief must evidently have been so familiar a figure in the bank that he was able to leave unnoticed with a haul that weighed a mere 20 lbs.-just right for a banker's briefcase. The FBI believed too that the thief had deliberately ripped off an even $1 million, knowing full well that bank officers would waste precious time attributing the loss to an accounting error. They just could not believe...
...mainly other fats to various parts of the body. The slightly heavier low-density lipoproteins (LDL) move cholesterol from cell to cell, where it is used to produce sex hormones, among other things. Any excess cholesterol is picked up by the heaviest lipoproteins, HDL, which, like garbage trucks, haul it off to the liver for disposal...
With The Talisman, though, the fun of the plot becomes confused with the characters' politics. The coffin-nappers here are not simply crooks looking for a big haul, but political protesters, holding one national symbol for the ransom of another--but very different--symbol. The trouble is that just as the book is too serious to be taken as light fiction, it is too outrageous to be taken seriously by anyone...
...Taft-Hartley injunction, the Carter Administration has pledged to keep hands off for the moment to allow the free collective-bargaining process to work. If there is no quick settlement, the I.L.A. threatens to extend the strike to other types of vessels besides container ships. Oil tankers, which haul the nation's biggest import, would not be affected (no longshore labor is required to unload them), but the bulk carriers that haul grain, a huge export item, out of New Orleans and other Gulf Coast ports would be stopped. So the nation's already worrisome trade deficit would...
John Hult, a former Rand Corp. scientist who heads his own firm, has a similar idea. He would like to wrap an Antarctic berg, mummy-fashion, in thick plastic and haul it to Southern California. Hult, who says he could do the job for a mere $30 million, calculates that he would lose only 5% of the berg's mass during the year-long trip. He would make up some of his immense costs by bottling a portion of the iceberg water in small flasks and then selling them as souvenirs for tourists. Says he: "The American public would...