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Police poking through the debris found few pieces of blackened scrap larger than two feet long or wide. An exception was an aircraft sign saying WELCOME. Near by two scorched dogs lay dead on their backs. All the coroner's crews could do was pick up parts of bodies and put them into yellow plastic bags. Said Deputy San Diego County Coroner Warren Chambers: "It may be many days before we will be able to match parts or even determine how many bodies we have...
...really mind the federal largesse, but it minded the fact that the federals wanted the town to pay 10%, which by now would amount to $21,000, almost as much as the original new snowplow that had seemed too expensive. So the town asked if it could simply scrap the construction of the snow-plow building. No, said the feds, if it did not have a construction project, it did not qualify for most FAA grants...
Weeks before the Puzo sale, competing publishers had laid intricate game plans that many would scrap to stay in the race. Final offers from runners-up Ballantine and Pocket Books were both $2.5 million, only $50,000 short of N.A.L. That seems a relatively small gap, but it is a chasm to the bidder already hundreds of thousands of dollars over his limit. In such cases, terms of the sale tip the balance...
...rise of the yen against the U.S. dollar. Ironically, a number of the country's domestic producers are being driven out of business by low-priced imports from developing lands. At some Japanese plants, workers are destroying textile machinery so it can be sold as scrap...
...schedule for himself as to what amount of money he would like to be making," his wife Mary once said. "Like maybe in five years he might like to be making $5,000 and in ten years $10,000. It was on a little scrap of paper...