Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...historical experience. While I cannot speak for other oil companies, the port captain of New York Harbor is on record as having said that the alleged tankers waiting offshore, about which we have heard so much, were in fact not tankers at all; they were container ships, and the pile-up was due to bad weather...
...many as ten individuals clamoring for every opening in some graduate fields, an applicant whose record cannot be easily assessed is at a distinct disadvantage. "It is more work evaluating a student on a pass/fail system. It takes more time. Often the student gets thrown out of the pile...
...rosebud bed, what women really get is dullesville. And they stick it out because they have the idyll hammered so hard into their heads that when it doesn't happen, as each gray day goes by without the promised firework display, as the earth keeps turning and the dishes pile up--they wonder if they, not society, have failed, guiltily...
...floods. This unusual warning was sounded last week by federal scientists. Why Jan. 8? Because of a relatively rare combination of circumstances, tides will be abnormally high around that time. Although the tides alone will not cause flooding, strong, persistent onshore winds accompanying a coastal storm would pile the water even higher, spilling it into low-lying areas...
...acknowledgment of TV's limitation in clarifying so complex and voluminous a pile of data was accurate enough. But the advice that Americans turn to print for more lucid, complete reportage was only partly satisfactory