Word: quart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tendency toward improvidence among a certain slice of our society, the seven would not have flown. Consider the name of one: Chapter XI. According to Julie Moore, the "wrench," or mechanic, on Chapter XI, the bomber burns 150 gallons of gasoline an hour, and a quart or two of oil. Taking maintenance into account, she estimates the operating cost at $650 an hour. A co-owner with her husband Jack Moore, an emergency-room physician in Sarasota and a former naval flight surgeon, she proudly displays her simple silver wedding band. "You will notice no diamonds," she said, saying further...
...these reports, issued by an committee of 16 area doctors and scientists, warned that the accidental release of one quart of nerve gas--the maximum amount at the laboratory at any given times--could spread a fatal dose as far as three tenths of a mile away...
...started in anguish ended in fury. After an Easter week of vacationing on the beach, Dominicans returned to work Monday to find that the government had sharply raised the prices on most of their basic foods. Bread rolls went up to 5? from 2½?, milk from 45? a quart to 55?, sugar from 26? per lb. to 31?. Several opposition groups immediately organized demonstrations across the country to protest the increases, which were instituted under the government's new austerity program. But their protests rapidly got out of control...
During transportation, the material will be in 10 ml. Sealed vials, which will be inside one-quart cans filled with enough absorbent material to prevent leakage in case of a spill, and the shipments will be coordinated by military vehicles with state police and local fire departments, the report continues...
...influences as diverse as René Magritte and Orson Welles, The Road Warrior and The Three Stooges. Videos are often just as frenetic on the screen as on the sound track. Directors scrape and scramble to pack in the imagery, like so many soda jerks trying to push a quart of French vanilla into a pint container. "The problem is compression," says Julian Temple, who has made some 60 videos, including a current dazzler of the Rolling Stones' Undercover of the Night. "You have to layer each shot with a lot of meaning. When you see a video...