Word: liquidation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tall by Chinese standards (5 ft. 5 in.), Chiang Ch'ing was slim and small-boned, with delicate, tapered hands. She gestured with liquid motions as she spoke, occasionally running a green-and-white plastic comb through her dark short-cropped hair. In what Witke described as her "imperial proletarian style," Chiang Ch'ing was surrounded by aides, bodyguards, her own doctors; the retinue hovers around her, silent and watchful; a scribe duly notes everything that she says; nobody else talks while Chiang Ch'ing is giving her monologue. She even made it clear to Witke that...
...fuel extremely costly to import. For example, Algeria, which has taken the lead in trying to boost exports to the U.S., is spending billions of dollars to build six liquefaction plants, but they are not expected to be fully operational for a decade. These facilities freeze the fuel into liquid natural gas (LNG), which is then loaded on specially constructed tankers that cost up to $150 million each...
Without more "liquid gold," Arizonans fear that they will not be able to sustain either their $1.2 billion-a-year agricultural output or their fast-growing population. In the past five years, the number of state residents has risen by almost half a million, to 2,270,000-the biggest percentage increase in the nation. This year alone, the population could jump another 5% as more and more Easterners settle in the state-fleeing the harshest winter they have ever known for the bounteous life of the Sunbelt...
Future modifications and money saving programs under study by Food Services include the possible replacement of the frozen liquid concentrate coffee, known to be labeled "sheep dip," now used by most dining halls. In its place would go coffee similar to that now served at Adams House. While the ground coffee is overwhelmingly more popular than the liquid concentrate, the capital investment for machines and additional labor may nip the proposal...
...first serious scientific interest was chemistry. "There was my period of explosives," he says, somewhat wistfully. "in those days you could get any chemicals you wanted. I would mix them together in various random ways. At one time I had a basement full of liquid bromine...