Word: load
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard point to rebut, but Walter Mondale was ready with an answer: "The real question is will we be better off? Are we better off with this arms race? Are we better off when we load our children with this fantastic debt...
...clad with aluminum armor that some critics claim would vaporize when hit by high-explosive antitank projectiles, creating a deadly fireball inside the fuel-and ammunition-laden tank. The manufacturer claims the tank's armor "does not burn when hit." So far, the Army has refused to load a Bradley with fuel and ammunition and fire a real rocket at it. According to an Aug. 24 memo written by James Wade Jr., a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, virtually no U.S. equipment is tested under live firing conditions because the costs would be too high...
...become the the first person ever to actually conduct experiments in the mysterious region. After constructing highly sensitive equipment at his Oxford St. lab, he and his crew travel down the National Scienific Balloon Facility in the heart of the cowfields of Palestine, Texas. There they carefully assemble and load up unmanned balloons--which when inflated reach the the same height as Boston's John Hancock tower--with equipment that will measure the gas composition of the stratosphere...
Each night convoys of anywhere from 600 to 1,500 men begin the long march westward. They load down their mules and camels with mortars, heavy machine guns and mines, then scramble along steep, rocky trails through an eerily deserted landscape. Stealing past a government fort and fields still littered with bomb fragments and mines, ignoring the distant thunder of MiGs and flares on the horizon, they cross the highlands along the border and descend toward battle...
...Alpine vacation areas, travelers' spending accounts for up to 80% of the economy. It is this boom in tourism, however, that has led to concern that an ecological apocalypse may be at hand. Says Gernot Patzelt, Innsbruck University's chief ecologist: "We have to define the maximum load, the point beyond which damages will become irreparable...