Word: loads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Accordingly, Wilson is proposing a two-seat lunar vehicle or quadracycle, made of lightweight metals. It would have wheels of a metallic mesh like those on the lunar rover to cope with the moon's dusty surface. Both astronauts would pedal while sitting; with a load of scientific gear, they could easily travel several kilometers without unduly exerting themselves. Best of all, while the cost of getting to the moon may be skyhigh, moving around on it should be dust-cheap...
Federal Reserve Board Chairman William Miller frets that the load is too heavy. So does his predecessor, Arthur Burns. Says he: "Consumers are going into debt at a reckless rate. They are counting on good luck. Let there be some weakness in the economy, and they'll be in trouble...
What makes the present load bearable for the borrower is the lengthening of the repayment schedules for installment loans. Auto loans that used to run for three years can now be stretched to four or even five. Some credit-card repayments can be drawn out indefinitely for anyone who is willing to pay an annual finance charge...
Gooseeggs--the major problem in an eggshell, was that the Crimson did not score. In particular, Lee Nelson, with 13 goals the previous year, and Walter Diaz, who had scored six in 1977, had been expected to carry the scoring load. Instead, Nelson ended up with no goals, and Diaz tallied only five to lead the team...
With the advent of the SAT, Kaplan found his work load too much to handle individually. Word-of-mouth advertising about the feisty tutor had spread to Queens and manhattan. He opened a permanent center in Brooklyn to handle the load, and rented places in the other boroughs in which to teach. His metropolitan area business continued to snowball as he became better known and the standardized tests more important...