Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to ramp up the energy in terms of getting high enough output," Derby said. Arthur D. Little's test run in October produced a kilowatt of power--but the fuel cell will have to put out at least 50 kilowatts to power...
...Nobody has a problem with building a ramp to the entrance of Adams House," says Smith, nothing that people are much more willing to make accommodations for people with physical disabilities...
Schmitt, 27, and Martin, 28, met at an indoor rock-climbing center in 1991. A year later, Schmitt married 20-year-old Ursula Dechamps. After five months, the couple's car plunged off a ramp into a canal; he escaped unhurt, but his wife's body washed up three days later. Schmitt collected $472,000 from her life insurance policy and headed off to Florida with Martin. Three years later, when their money ran out, authorities say the couple returned to Belgium, where Martin met a homely financial consultant through a personal ad. They married quickly, but on their honeymoon...
...film's cropping is so tight that it excludes any human involvement, and ordinary household objects become screen stars before our mesmerized eyes. A potato warrior, two kitchen knives tied to its back, plunges down a ramp and a lazy tire hops aboard a tiny wheeled cart, only to glide a little further before hitting its target. The elaborate set-up is at once a marvel of makeshift precision and comic redundancy (just imagine a wheel riding a cart!), and these moments of transcendent anthropomorphism simultaneously account for the film's humor and its morbid undercurrent. Eventually the series will...
Hickey was driving home on the Mystic Valley Parkway, which is northwest of Cambridge, at about 3 a.m., when a truck swerved into his lane after speeding off an exit ramp, Adams House Superintendent William B. Long said. The force knocked Hickey's car off the highway and into a tree...