Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understand a word they were saying. I told them to go away, that they were scaring the fish. They seemed to get the message, and before I knew it, they were back inside that darned thing and gone. By the end of the week, half the airforce was flying overhead with the helicopters and the gun boats. I haven't caught a thing since. There's probably not a fish between here and Finland...
...cerie fight: As we worked cottontails, their coasts ablaze darted out of the burning grasses. A steady stream of flashing lights came down the highway and every few minutes helicopters skimmed overhead to land in the empty field by the market. In the distance like far-off bombs--we could hear mobile homes exploding as their gas tanks caught fire...
...Peabody Museum of Archacology and Ethnology last month launched an 18-month, 53 million overhead which should transform the nation's oldest archacological muscum into the nation's must advanced, Peabody Director C.C. Lamberg Karlovsky said yesterday...
Some 40 patrol boats, torpedo boats, minesweepers, surveying ships and buzzing police launches joined in the hunt. Many of the pursuers carried highly sensitive sonar equipment. Overhead clattered ten antisubmarine helicopters, which lowered hydrophones into the water like stethoscopes. When a telltale noise was heard, a chopper or a boat would drop depth charges in an attempt to force the sub to the surface. The waters of the bay rose in explosive plumes, and the air was filled with the smell of dead fish...
...industrywide sales have slumped, automakers have redoubled efforts to pare overhead costs. Corporate staffs have been reduced, inefficient plants closed, and new manufacturing methods introduced. By far the most stringent cost-cutter is Chrysler, which has cut its work force from 157,958 to about 75,000 since 1978 as its annual sales have dropped from 1.1 million to 730,000. The result: after four years of losses and near-bankruptcy in 1979, the company made $258.6 million during the first six months of 1982, and could wind up in the black for the entire year. Even so, Chrysler...