Word: loading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Board Rest Rooms. Despite its computers and coffee shops, Greyhound intends to remain primarily a bus company. Ackerman believes that load factors can be made even more profitable, is trying to attract more riders with soft chairs, glareless windows and on-board rest rooms. To get more passengers away from railroads-many of which are not sorry to see them go-Greyhound is constantly speeding up its schedules. On its 681-mile Canadian run from Vancouver to Calgary, its buses now beat the train by an hour. In some cases Greyhound can even compete with planes: the sign...
...killed his possessive mother-or was it his indifferent father? The doctor may have pushed his brother over a cliff, or did he strangle his mistress? Eugene, a crane operator at a construction project, thinks he stabbed his faithless wife; on the other hand, he may have dumped a load of iron beams on his foreman, whom he suspected of being her lover...
Another anomaly in the rate structure is the determination of rates within a given classification of commodities (such as agricultural products) by weight. For instance, the railroads charge the same rates for cabbage as for corn, although cabbages load "light" and are unprofitable, while corn loads "heavy" and is highly profitable. Such commodities should be classified by bull...
...advantage of having a volunteer reduce a teacher's course load is an aspect of HUT which even the critics of student volunteering have acknowledged. HUT's usually take half of a class, either the "bright" half or the "slower" half, leaving the remainder with the regular teacher. The increased homogeneity usually results in a more responsive group...
Each weekday morning, a blue U.S. Air Force bus grinds slowly up the hills of Sonnenberg, West Germany, between ancient gabled houses and the ruins of a castle. At the Konrad Duden elementary school, it discharges a noisy load of American grade-school children from nearby Wiesbaden. Minutes later they are answering Frau Hertha Viehweger's questions-in easy, fluent German...