Word: load
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into a powerful military outpost." Even the British were not of one mind. Labor M.P. George Foulkes, a member of the opening delegation even though he opposes Westminster's estimated $750 million-a-year defense allocation to protect the islands, declared that the celebration was nothing more than "a load...
...travels, just now, with a light load of baggage (see following story). Her physical possessions, she says, amount to not much more than the ragbag of goofy clothes that serve as her professional and private wardrobe, a ten-speed bicycle stored in New York and a Chinese rug in Los Angeles. No house, no apartment, no car, no rich-at-last jewels or stereo system. She seems to have passed through the lives of a lot of people and to have remained in not many. She sees her father and stepmother only rarely...
...Students are not willing to give the time to learn about the CRR while coping with their present academic work load, and we don't think they should be expected...
...issues on which the Committee wants to have it both ways is that of reduction in length of time to degree Almost all graduate students want to finish more quickly, but we cannot do this unless we are given substantially more financial support. A reduction in teaching load (recommended in the Report) must be accompanied by an increase in fellowships, not explicitly promised by the Report...
...four employees who work the unenviable night shift at Wells Fargo's fortress-like depot in lower Manhattan reported for duty at 1 a.m. Two were guards carrying service revolvers; two were unarmed. Their job was to open the vault and load an armored car with money bags destined for the Federal Reserve Bank. One of the four, who knew the first half of the vault's combination, executed his part of the routine. Then another, who knew the second part of the combination, opened the safe, which contained about $20 million...