Word: load
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radical budget and tax cuts. The Democrats, lacking a comprehensive alternative that can hold their House majority in line, have done little more than salvage a few programs and obstruct a handful of Reagan proposals. But they did have one small consolation last week. Because of the increased work load of the Office of Management and Budget, Stockman asked for a 12% increase in appropriations for his agency. Said liberal Democrat Edward Roybal of California, "Children will be left hungry, the aged left weary and cold, the truly needy wanting, and Mr. Stockman thinks his OMB's duties should...
...explosion knocked down two whole hose teams." Added fellow Fireman Bob Barton: "There were some of us buried under wreckage. We went up with our hose but lost pressure." Another seaman remembered the shock of seeing casualties brought below deck from the holocaust: "My chief was on the first load from the elevator. He was missing...
...School has also tried to increase its ties to the legal profession. A report approved by the faculty on April 29 encourages lawyers to come to the school as visiting fellows to work with students on projects. Starting in 1982, the school will offer a full load of courses exploring the legal profession and dealing with professional responsibility...
...from the ventricle to a pump outside the body that sends it directly to the abdominal aorta or femoral artery to continue its natural circulation. The heart is left intact but goes on a sort of holiday, rebuilding its strength so that it can later resume its full work load. Says John C. Norman of the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, who has been working on left ventricular devices since 1965: "If I take your heart out and put in a totally artificial heart, I have burned all bridges. If I put in an auxiliary heart, your own heart...
...baseball insider asserts that Kuehl's charge is only half true. "Matt Keough keeps it in his glove. Mike Norris keeps it in his crotch. Steve McCatty and Rick Langford are the ones who keep it on their foreheads. It's grease, a salve. They all load the ball up and it makes them good. It helped turn them around in one year." Something turned Oakland's pitchers around. Keough went from 2-17 in 1979 to 16-13 , last year...