Word: pit
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...within the Congo, Belgium's African colony, and grew rapidly in its late-1940s-and-1950s heyday. Then came the end of the colonial period, the 1970s fuel shocks, labor strife and mounting losses requiring regular government bailouts. By the 1980s Sabena was being lampooned as a bottomless pit. An attempt at restructuring in 1982-83 brought some respite, but in the rapidly changing world of commercial airlines, the carrier was too small, its costs too high. Sabena needed a partner to survive. The fateful deal with Swissair was signed in May 1995, after Sabena's attempts to ally itself...
...walls to add volume and connect it to the needs of the present. Says Veronica, a garden writer and renovation addict: "When you move into a house, you're moving into the lifestyle of that era. If it's a 1970s house, you will have to suffer the conversation pit. Our 1930s house was small. People's needs, desires and expectations were completely different than they...
...neutralized a suspected terrorist cell." It remains to be seen whether that is true or whether local vigilance has gone overboard. Just a few weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks last year, a deputy sheriff in Skamania County, Wash., responded to a complaint about gunshots at a rural gravel pit. Six men in Muslim caps were testing out an arsenal of weaponry, including an assault rifle and semiautomatic pistols. The deputy took their names. A month later, when one was arrested for carrying illegal weapons, the officer recognized him and called the fbi. Four of the others would later...
...long-term vision includes pit crews, flame-retardant crimson jump suits and four-hour endurance midget races...
...tournament provided valuable match experience before next week’s ECAC Championships in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. The event is the first team competition of the fall season and will pit Harvard against potent squads from Brown and Virginia Tech...