Word: load
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...festivities began when Santos-Buch worked out a walk to lead off the frame, and continued when Scheper moved him to second with a one-out single. Allard flied to center, but Wark took a free pass to load the bases for Bauer with...
Americans are now staggering under an installment and mortgage debt load of more than $1 trillion. Yet even credit crunches create opportunities, and some canny consumers have found profits in the vortex of soaring interest rates. A Detroit magazine editor, for example, now sends his savings across the border to invest in the Canadian Bank of Nova Scotia, where six-month certificates yield 17.5% and up, or 2% more than is available Stateside. Two daughters of an affluent Birmingham, Mich., physician used $14,000 in low-interest Government student loans (see box) to invest in real estate and bank certificates...
...they lobby U.S. Presidents and Congressmen and city councilors to adopt laws that would promote jobs for deprived minorities and investment for capital-starved companies. They often recruit each other for public interest projects, major and modest. When Manhattan College, a Catholic institution, needed money recently, its fund-raising load was carried by GM's Thomas Aquinas Murphy, DeButts and Shapiro. A few months earlier the same three men, a neatly balanced ticket, did the same thing for Yeshiva University, a Jewish institution. They and others are prime movers of the Business Roundtable, which has replaced some more regressive...
...Military Command Center flashes out the presidential order for a counter strike. The aging squadrons of B-52s from bases in North and South Dakota roar into the air. Later, while flying over North Pole ice sheets approximately 1,500 miles from their objectives, each bomber drops a deadly load of up to 20 cruise missiles. Like oversize model aircraft, these small unmanned jets skim at 500 m.p.h. only 50ft. above the ocean. Finally, hedgehopping their way under air defenses, the cruises' nuclear warheads explode in mushroom clouds on their targets, Soviet air and naval bases near Murmansk...
...very active research program" necessitated the expansion, Dr. William Silen, Johnson Professor of Surgery, said yesterday. "We've been constrained only by the lack of space and the heavy teaching load," he said, adding that he will hire at least three additional instructors in surgery...