Word: pits
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...snob, but Lubbock is the armpit of Texas. I can say this because I’ve talked to people from there who say that themselves, I’ve been there myself, and if you look at Texas on a map, Lubbock falls nicely into the pit area...
...stop over at five other Ivy League schools, up and back! Take I-95 and make pit stops at Brown, Yale, Columbia and Princeton before arrival at Penn...
...Nazis swept across Vienna, I felt like a pit opened before me, and I stood on its edge. I was so afraid—of the panic, the beatings, the concentration camps, but knew that I couldn’t give up hope for democracy and a better future,’ she said...
...worst problem, however, remains aesthetics. Omya officials claim that the quarry's surface would be no larger than 33 of the 400 acres on the Danby site, where core samples have assured them there is good marble to be found. Locals are worried about mine creep, however, with the pit growing wider as markets for marble grow bigger. Reddy (who has some environmental expertise, having served on a desert-land-use panel to which he was appointed by former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt) believes there are ways to make the mine in Danby less of an eyesore. Building grassy berms...
Operating like a NASCAR pit crew, Southwest's mechanics pride themselves on changing airplane tires faster than their counterparts at other airlines. And mechanics at Southwest don't use the standard $500 tool to remove the magnetic device that detects metal chips in engine oil, as other mechanics do; they simply and quickly use their hand to pop it out. "Those tools are a waste," says a mechanic...