Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Down one set, the 6-ft., 5-in. Beckman used his strength to overpower Robertson's shots with awe-inspiring rallying and overhead smashes, and posted...
...study projects that contrary to widespread belief, enrollment in state schools will level off and that even without federal cuts, the need for state and will grow. Despite inflation and rising overhead costs, the set number for state grants has remained at $900. In the early '70s Massachusetts money covered total tuition for some of the lower-priced colleges in the state but now it goes towards no more than 40 percent...
With the increased use of cash come problems. Last week Atlantic Richfield Co. stopped accepting credit cards, claiming that the resulting lower overhead costs would permit it to drop the price of gasoline by about 30 per gal. ARCO, though, is so fearful of gasoline stickups that it is installing safes in most of its stations...
...class neighborhoods and east toward affluent Grosse Pointe, tens of thousands are dying. Survivors crawl from wrecked homes to see a more ordinary terror beginning. The only illumination is from house fires; the power is out. Ruptured gas lines explode, setting new blazes, and the flames spread unchecked. Rising overhead now is the catastrophe's explanation: a dark mushroom cloud, already eight miles high...
...Camino Real hotel in San Salvador, where most of them stay, the 200-odd foreign journalists in El Salvador daily swap stories of near misses and miraculous escapes. In one episode a photographer rolled under his car just in time to elude bullets blasting from a helicopter gunship overhead. In another, a van carrying an NBC crew had its windows blown out; the passengers got away unhurt save for cuts from flying glass. Such adventures are often recounted with black humor, and justified on the grounds of competitive pressure. Says one U.S. newsman: "If another network gets a story...