Word: load
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston fourth, Tony Armas doubled, Rich Gedman singled and Frank Tanana walked Marty Barrett to load the bases with nobody out. Hoffman's sacrifice fly drove in Armas...
...With a heavy proxy load, it's obviously difficult to deal with general policy issues," said Professor of Business Administration John J. Gabarro, the head of the committee...
Driscoll told Publisher Taylor in January that he wanted to quit, but Taylor implored him to stay. Aware of Driscoll's unhappiness, Janeway created two new deputy managing editor spots to ease his colleague's work load. Driscoll, however, saw the move as an attempt to curtail his responsibility. Two weeks ago, Driscoll repeated to Taylor his plans to leave. The publisher, convinced that Driscoll was more indispensable to the Globe than was Janeway, spent a restless four days deciding what to do. By St. Patrick's Day, Taylor's mind was made...
...work, and subsequently died, from a cocaine overdose. Shortly thereafter, Capital Cities, which later acquired ABC, discovered organized drug dealing in one of its divisions. Last year, according to Dr. Robert Wick, corporate medical director for American Airlines, a computer operator who was high on marijuana failed to load a crucial tape into a major airline's computer reservations system. Result: the system was out of service for some eight hours, costing the company about $19 million. Says Wick: "That was an awfully expensive joint by anybody's standards...
...smugglers and U.S. Customs agents play a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game at the Tijuana-San Ysidro border crossing, an inspection station that handles 27,000 vehicles a day. On one recent afternoon, a raggedly dressed vendor carrying a load of serapes could be seen watching the inspectors and tipping off the Mexican driver of a pickup truck to work his way over to lane 7, where a weary Customs officer was waving most cars through without a check. At the same time, another supposed vendor worked the other side, scrutinizing the vehicles for the Customs agents and whispering...