Word: loads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Minnesota Stock Exchange. The big entrepreneurs--the Buffetts, the Eisners, the Gateses--will jet off to Minnesota to line up financing for their future moves. And one day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned--lock, stock and roulette wheel--by Lutheran Brotherhood and must renegotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120 for a suit...
...Sahara desert collides with cooler, moister air over the sub-Saharan region known as the Sahel. Under normal conditions, the collision produces eddies of low-pressure air that drift out over the ocean, where storm clouds begin to form. Most of the time, the clouds simply dump their load of rain and dissipate...
This plan isn't economic. Even its proponents have largely given up on the absurd fiction that canceling America's meager $620 million worth of cultural programs will do anything to reduce the present budget deficit of $180 billion. Not when a Senate committee last month approved a pork load for the military of $7 billion more than the Pentagon asked...
...allowed him to rescue most of the use of his left arm. But during his three-year convalescence, he developed an infection that required his right kidney to be removed. Sonograms have shown that his left kidney has, as expected, got larger in order to compensate for its increased load. (Doctors note that thousands of people live quite normally on a single kidney.) A small stone was removed from his remaining kidney in 1981, but there have been no further complications since then...
...Perhaps the show's most moving and nuanced postwar tribute to sculpture's classical past is Henri Laurens' Morning, 1944. A bronze woman awakening: it ought to be an idyllic image. But it is not, because the massive post-Cubist forms of her limbs suggest stress, a heavy, invisible load to which the energy locked in the figure responds...