Word: load
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early on a design that can be ordered quickly into mass production. Soviet equipment has lots of flaws: its major tanks are subject to engine overheating and transmission breakdowns; their inside space is so cramped that their crewmen cannot be more than 5 ft. 5 in. tall and can load the gun only with their left hand. Quips a U.S. Army report: "The Soviets are in deep trouble if they ever run out of strong left-handed midgets." The Soviets do not seem to be worried. They are turning out tanks at a rate of 2,000 a year...
...appeals court, O'Connor faced no landmark cases. But she did manage to cut the court's case load by persuading her former colleagues in the senate to modify laws involving workmen's compensation and unemployment insurance. Generally, she upheld trial judges, dismissing appeals from defendants who claimed they had been denied a speedy trial, refused transcripts, and other technicalities. In an article for the current issue of the William and Mary Law Review, she urged federal judges to give greater weight to the factual findings of state courts, contending that when a state judge moves...
...Pont will have to borrow $3 billion to finance the purchase, which would more than double its debt load, and some observers think that Conoco might be too much to digest. Du Pont has a reputation for being a tightly run company that frequently shifts managers between product lines to give them broader experience. Asserts Thorn Brown, an analyst with the investment firm of Butcher & Singer: "There's no easy way to integrate Conoco into the Du Pont operation...
Good novels about school - like The Catcher in the Rye and A Separate Peace - are classics. Here, the common memories of childhood - fear, rebellion, shame, what Yeats called "Youth's dreamy load" - are set against the structured, unfair world of a convent school...
...single mother of three, I am pleased to see fathers recognize how difficult it is to raise a family alone [June 15]. Many married women with children who work in full-time jobs have essentially the same load as these men. That burden, carried without help or appreciation, may be why some women split...