Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mileage competition shows that there is enormous room for improvement in auto efficiency. Last week, the Transportation Department rejected a petition by U.S. automakers for a reduction in federal mileage standards. This means that carmakers must boost average mileage of this year's 19-m.p.g. minimum to 26 m.p.g. in 1983, on the way toward 27.5 m.p.g...
...quickly as workmen could throw up one-room wooden shelters designed to ward off the daily summer rains, whole families moved in. Others huddled in their cars parked in the muddy courtyard. Medical supplies were unavailable, and sanitary conditions were so bad that doctors feared epidemics would break...
Another prosecution witness was Peter Bessell, who claimed that Thorpe had confessed his homosexuality to him at a meeting in the House of Commons dining room and later said he wanted to murder Scott for blackmailing him. Bessell, the judge noted, was "a lay preacher who at the same time was sexually promiscuous and, therefore, a humbug...
...meets later this month to conduct its own investigation of the elections and fill several vacant posts. While it seems unlikely that he would be ousted as party leader, there is a strong possibility that his opponents will increase their influence on the committee, thereby limiting Berlinguer's room for maneuvering...
...gold, it is the mud-and-brick temple that may prove to be the real scientific treasure, providing insights into Afghanistan's even remoter past. It contains two halls whose flat roofs were supported by 15 square columns; the altar in the larger room shows traces of ash. No one knows who the builders were, what they were burning or where they ultimately went. (One theory: they may have been Aryans, who spoke an Indo-European language and who later decamped to India.) Says Sarianidi: "The temple may yet tell us something about those people, who otherwise have left...