Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week the Kazakhstan inventory of uranium was half a ton lighter as officials in Washington and the Kazakh capital of Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata) announced that the team, after six weeks of feverish activity, had successfully moved the material to the Oak Ridge nuclear-storage facility in Tennessee. Over the next several months, the Energy Department will entertain offers from private industry to turn the highly enriched uranium into lower- grade commercial reactor fuel. The Administration touted the mission as a good reason to keep money flowing to the beleaguered Nunn-Lugar account. The fund -- named for sponsors Senator...
...limited to a ceiling altitude of 71,000-72,000 feet [22 kilometers] unloaded," says James R. Podolske, an atmospheric scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center. "To go higher, you either have to go faster or have a lighter plane...
...knuckles, marred with scabs, whiten as he squeezes a silver Zippo lighter, which looks large in his small and fragile hands. He snaps open the lighter with practiced precision, then lights a Marlboro and sucks it furiously. "My sister turned seven in April. Do you know what we did for her / birthday? Nothing! Mom was in Vegas. I coulda killed...
...back, finishing it off with a trademark belch. He is now out of beer as well as cigarettes and money, and there is nothing to distract him but the cold sea breeze. He searches each pocket twice, the first time slowly and then frantically: only a pocket knife, his lighter and a hairbrush. Then he sits, arms wrapped around his knees, head turned away, his small frame shaking slightly. "This is bull ," he says in a whisper. He says it again, then again, each time softer until he is inaudible...
...guilty about what they're eating. The next level down [from anorexia and bulimia] would be nice to address: why the general population of women on this campus is not happy about the way they look, why people feel pressure to always be a little thinner, a few pounds lighter," she says. "It's a major problem--most women carry around this little cloud...