Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solar disk. The Apollo 13 camera also is equipped with a lens cap and has a backup: a spare black-and-white model inside the cabin. Other improvements in their paraphernalia: antiglare visors, 8-oz. water pouches inside their suits ("Nice for wetting the whistle," Haise explains), backpacks to haul lunar samples (instead of the fancy Teflon bags that hooked to their sides) and even a nylon whisk broom to brush off the clinging lunar dust...
...many other cosas. Trippy old hinges for doors, rubber plants which manufacture rubber-bands, a larger cage for Birdie. They flaired out of the lot at last with the dowery nearly spent, Sam quiet, and the TR sweating hard to pull Merilee's purchases along behind in the U-Haul she had conned a man into lending...
...cities. Of the nation's approximately 80,000 cities, towns, villages, school boards, sanitary districts and other governments, most are too small, too fragmented, and too jealous of each other. There are few joint programs that would provide efficient transit for these people, educate their children effectively, or even haul away their garbage. The sheer growth in the numbers of people has led to many of today's inefficiencies ?traffic-jammed streets, uncollected trash, interminable waits for taxis, lunch tables or a sales clerk's attention...
...Cantonese in 1968 seemed forced to start all over again, as they had in 1949, to build a party apparatus, increase production, and figure out how their city, along with all the other torn, bloodied parts of China, might fit back into one whole. They faced this long haul, Vogel says, "with less optimism. less idealism, and less willingness to sacrifice," yet with "more wisdom and experience...
...strike force in Detroit pressed its inquiry anyway. On New Year's Day, federal agents arrested Dice Dawson and eight others in Michigan. The haul included $450,000 worth of checks in Dice's possession and $171,000 in cash held by an associate. Subsequent arrests in Las Vegas, New York and Biloxi, Miss., brought the catch to 14. All were charged with violating interstate gambling laws. Said U.S. Attorney James Ritchie: "Statements made by some of those arrested and seized records indicate a national scheme involving famous figures in baseball and football and hundreds of trainers...