Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...potential for oil-pollution disaster has increased along with the size of tankers. In World War II 16,000-ton tankers were standard. Today 300,000-ton behemoths ply the sea, and larger ships are planned. As the Torrey Canyon dramatically demonstrated in 1967, one ship can cause a major calamity. In the past five years 94 tankers have foundered; two collisions occur every week. Then there is the rising risk of dangerous pollution from offshore oil wells. Last spring a presidential panel investigating the Santa Barbara Channel blowout concluded that the U.S. faces one major oil spill every year...
Both squads play extremely physical hockey, leaning more to a defensive strategy than an explosive offensive style. Each team has the physical size and the necessary goaltending to make the system pay off. And in Harvard, a position-playing, precision-passing squall that is easily rattled by rough play, both Brown and Clarkson will find a perfect opponent upon which to wreak their body-checks...
...Soglo with Zinsou, who struggled to overcome Dahomey's budget deficit of $3,000,000 by cutting government salaries and freezing wages. He succeeded only in setting off a series of strikes. His undoing came when word leaked out that he planned to cut the army's size and replace Kouandété. Despite the drawbacks of the job, the candidates are already lining up. As soon as Kouandété announced that political exiles were welcome to return home, three exiled ex-Presidents cabled to offer their services...
...driver let us out at the highway that would take us to Santa Fe and Taos. Before getting on the highway, however, we walked over to a Denny's Drive-In. A sign at the door said shoes were required, so Yana wore my size 11 sneakers. She remarked that society was backwards; the waitress served her first, but Man was supposed to go before Woman...
...conceded that because of the small sample size, a reasonable disparity in monthly averages could be expected. In fact, the average monthly draft number varied from 225.8 in March to 121.5 in December...