Word: load
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know how he kills turkeys?" Barney McHenry, one of Baker's oldest friends, had said. "He pays good money to have someone load his feeders with , corn so he can lure them in. Then he shoots them while they're standing on the ground eating. Some sport...
...sources in Washington said the plane was carrying close to a full load of fuel totaling 155,000 pounds, including its own fuel and fuel to transfer during the flight to Hawaii to some F-16 fighters flying across the Pacific...
...aircraft, a military spin-off of the Boeing 707, normally takes a crew of four or five. It can carry a sizeable load of passengers even when carrying fuel...
When George Bush became President last week, he inherited that mountainous load, along with a 74-month economic boom, the longest peacetime expansion in the modern era. Bush, who once ridiculed Reagan's policies as "voodoo economics," must now confront both sides of the Reaganomics legacy. In doing so, he will turn for economic advice to a profession that is struggling to find new ways of understanding the unprecedented boom-and-borrow cycle of the past eight years...
...late, anyway, to head off a game of NIMBY (not in my backyard) between Romer and Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus. Though Government inspectors closed much of the Rocky Flats plant in October because of severe safety violations, enough of it remains running to produce nearly a boxcar load of hazardous waste a week. Until mid-October those boxcars were sent to the National Engineering Laboratory in Idaho for "temporary" storage. But when it became clear that WIPP would not open on schedule, Governor Andrus sent one of the boxcars back to Colorado. There, outside the plant, it still sits, near...