Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grade-B effort from Reagan is still an effective performance. The President introduced one characteristic touch to make statistics come alive: observing that the national debt is approaching $1 trillion, he remarked, raising his arm, that a trillion dollars stacked up in $1,000 bills would make a pile 67 miles high.* At least some opponents in the TV audience were grudgingly impressed. California Leftist Tom Hayden, 40, who opposes the program as inequitable, nonetheless judged Reagan's presentation "one of the most substantial speeches by an American President in my lifetime...
...contract cancers as the general population, the Department of Energy estimates. While studies on the effects of radiation on South African blacks are not available, figures on North American Indians document a stark reality. The Navajo reservation at Tuba City, Arizona is adjacent to an enormous uranium mill tailing pile. During a six month period in 1980, 63 birth defects were reported in the baby clinic at the local Indian hospital, a large number in a small population...
...FACTS and figures pile up, endlessly, but a different organization might yield a work comparable to Buccoli's authorized biography...
Unless, of course, you're the type of person that goes to auto races hoping for a 12-car pile...
...Crimson waited 18 minutes to score in the second period as well, grabbing a 2-1 lead when Falcone flipped the puck over a pile of defenders at 18:10. Almost everybody on the ice had a shot at the puck, and the ref even gave the goal to Mark Fusco, but when the mess in front of the St. Lawrence net unscrambled, it was Falcone from Rick Benson and Dave Burkc...