Word: load
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Donald said he was not convinced that Brinkley would actually cut downhis teaching load...
...ENDOWMENT'S set pay-out rate has increased the burden on students at a time when the load should be lightened. During the bull market of the last five years the endowment has more than doubled. Inflation has stuck at a low 4 percent...
...perfectly true he had to miss the homecoming parade the time his daughter Carla was elected queen because he was digging up his parents' old septic tank and transporting it to the town dump. But, he said, it was just a . . . well, prevarication to say that hauling his load of "thirty years of family history" (nice phrase), he made a wrong turn and ran smack-dab into the National Guard tank that was Carla's float in the parade...
...told the captain 'Look!,' but it was too late." Seconds later the missile slammed into the ship. The warhead exploded in the officers' quarters of the vessel, which two days earlier had left behind its escort of U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf and sailed into Kuwaiti waters to load up with refined-petroleum products. Eighteen crew members were injured, including the American captain and radioman...
...small nation willing to trade bananas for several metric tons of hospital waste. But that's nothing compared with New Jersey's efforts to give away its garbage. City managers have sent trucks rolling into rural Pennsylvania in search of an appropriate rock formation on which to deposit their load. Pennsylvanians, to their credit, have been pretty adamant about not taking the refuse. A dozen roses, yes, but they refuse to accept 750 tons of Twinkie wrappers and ex-TV dinners...