Word: skimmer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generation of spill-cleanup technology would have the most dramatic impact on the problem. "Our current technology is in the Stone Age," says the National Wildlife Federation's Olson. The booms and skimmers that are most frequently used suffer some basic flaws: they do not work in rough seas, and heavy crude tends to seep under a boom and clog a skimmer. Finally, the devices are all but useless when confronted with a devastatingly large spill like the Valdez disaster. Once the oil had spread over the vast Prince William Sound, a boat towing a skimmer needed fully 14 hours...
...incoming missiles, but the ship's only warning came just seconds before impact when a lookout spotted the first Exocet. To counter such problems, Israel is developing the Barak, an antimissile missile that is launched vertically into the air and then dives down to knock out a sea skimmer as far as several miles away; the U.S. has contributed $10 million toward the project...
With two down, Crimson catcher Gia Barresi hit a lazy line drive to left, which dropped in front of Montuori. Cleanup hitter Trisha Brown followed with a single to center, and Sharon Hayes drove Barresi home with a skimmer just beyond the reach of Eagle shortstop Robin LaBrecque...
...Cowboy hats, sun hats, a couple of tricornes, several cardboard crowns, a red-white-and-blue beret. California wore black Zorro hats, and a delegate from New Jersey had an elephant head on his head-if that counts as a hat. One woman at the convention wore a straw skimmer with an elephant on top, which also wore a hat, an Uncle Sam. She was holding a Cabbage Patch doll, which wore another skimmer, on which stood another elephant...
...first game in a tiebreaker, and took a close second game as well, Harvard was one stanza from victory. Just less than a full game later, they were one shot away, the score in game three tied at 17. Zabel was the one to execute it, however, a skimmer off the front wall, just out of reach of Brog's straining racket in the front left corner...