Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agents and highway patrolmen, and must frequently take back roads and lengthy detours. Sophisticated smugglers, some of whom make $75,000 a year, employ two-way radios, lookout cars, and rented vehicles that are hard to trace. A few unscrupulous operators have even been known to recruit willing mojados, load them into a waiting vehicle at $250 a head, and then renege on the contract by dumping them 15 miles north of the Mexican border for a tidy profit with no risk involved, since their victims can hardly complain to the police...
...thing it really wants -an end to the strike. Nor, it seems, can negotiators for the striking Teamsters union and the papers. The main issue is automation-a new multimillion-dollar Post-Dispatch printing plant has made obsolete the jobs of some of the 32 Teamsters who load papers on and off delivery trucks. Last week the Globe-Democrat went to court to seek a settlement, and Mayor John Poelker said he would step in to mediate the strike. Meanwhile the readers wait...
...payroll tax that is enacted by Congress to support a national health-insurance plan. Two such plans have been bottled up in the Legislative Branch for more than three years, both of which would be supported by contributions from employers and employees. The idea of transferring the full load to the company is certain to be picked up by other unions, and thus stiffen labor's demands for enactment of a national health-care plan...
...beside their hogs or sheep or cattle, while their parents catch the last shuttle back up the hill to where the family camper is parked. Even the midway finally shuts down, and an unaccustomed calm falls over the fairgrounds. Fairgoers somehow find their cars in the mammoth parking lot, load in the family and drive out the gates back to their own lives. Out side the fair, there are harder choices than whether to see the milking contest or the quilt making, and the world of blue ribbons, cotton candy and lemon shakes is something fanciful and far away. Until...
...often suggested to meet these requirements is to freeze the soft soil under the foundation. But engineers point out that such a move might only shift the load to lower levels of subsoil that are even softer and more likely to give way. Others, unaware of Mussolini's unsuccessful attempt, suggest injecting concrete or plastics into the ground. Then there is what seems to be the more practical plan of M.I.T. Aerospace Engineer Yao Tzi Li, who proposed ringing the tower's base with buried concrete pads. Connected to the tower by a network of trusses, the pads...