Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only that, she added, but the factory productivity was found to increase. "On a job they used to fall asleep on, the productivity went up to the extent that the factory ran out of work," Cerf said...
...lost an ear when space funding ran into trouble recently," Tanabaum said. Since the Space Shuttle has dominated the NASA budget over the past several years, "leading to a backlog of other high quality programs...
...This bridge was only maybe five years old," Atencio was saying. "The young ones do not build them as good as the oldtimers." Below, the river ran shallow, clear and green. Beyond sprawled the lion-toned territory. Everywhere else was a deep-blue sky like an inverted bowl; everywhere, that is, but along the terribly littered bank. Atencio gave the trash a tearless but disgusted eye. Tourists had not been responsible for the beer cans, the dead radios, the broken whisky bottles and the rump-sprung chairs. The Indian knew that. Standing there by the mess, gray hair pulled back...
...happen. Part of the favela had been built illegally on private land near a gasoline pipeline owned by the state oil monopoly, Petrobrás. The day before the fire, Petrobrás had ordered the wrong pipeline to be opened, causing a leak in the pipeline that ran next to Vila SocÓ. Investigators contend that Petrobrás failed to monitor a pressure buildup on the line and stop the leak. At the time of the explosion, shortly after midnight, gasoline had spread throughout many ditches of the shantytown, creating a liquid bomb that awaited only ignition. Petrobr...
Wanda:Ralph, do you remember Stanley, who ran off with the meter maid and joined the love commune in Altoona? Well, it seems he's back with his wife again...