Word: loads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They've posted some good results all year and are known as a crew that won't give up," Fallows said. "Their strategy was to go very hard. They front-load their race with everything they've got with the intention of gaining an insurmountable lead...
...starters, clench-jawed officials promised an increased bomb load this week. "No targets are off limits that are involved in the repression," says National Security Council spokesman David Leavy. Improved weather could by itself double the daily sortie count, and additional planes now en route to the Balkans will drive it even higher. Tacitly acknowledging their predicament, the allies--especially the U.S., which is flying more than 80% of the attack missions--are hurling more firepower at Yugoslavia. B-1 Lancers are letting go with 500-pounders and the Combined Effects Munition, a particularly macabre bomb filled with 202 tank...
...Godfree led off the bottom of the second with a towering double into right, and she took third on a wild pitch. Senior Tara LaSovage followed with a walk and took second on another wild pitch, and freshman pinch hitter Cherry Fu drew a walk to load the bases...
...eighth, Bridich proved anunlikely hero for a second time, as the Crimsonput two unearned runs on the board for theeventual winning margin. Harvard used a droppedthird strike and two walks to load the bases forBridich with two outs, and the junior battledreliever John Dolan to a full count. He fouled offseveral 3-2 pitches before driving a hard groundball at third base...
...first tractor-trailer load of nuclear garbage finally rumbled up to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in the New Mexico desert last week. Protests, lawsuits and bureaucratic snafus had delayed for 11 years the opening of the nation's first permanent deep-rock nuclear repository and turned the project into a black hole of costs: the $1 billion price tag eventually got to $19 billion. Even so, the plant will operate at barely 40% of capacity until state regulators grant certification. "Radioactive wastes will be a lot safer here than sitting around at old bomb plants," said ROBERT NEILL, director...