Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Using half-a-dozen basis sets and their infinite variations, the Restic offense changes every week depending on the opponent-that's the multiplicity-and makes use of such hocus-pocus as backs and ends in motion before the snap-that's the flexibility...
...Gotera when the aircraft went down near the Honduran border, killing all 14 passengers, including other senior army officers. Radio Venceremos, the rebel station, claimed that guerrilla forces had shot down the helicopter, but according to an army investigation, metal fatigue in the rotor shaft caused both blades to snap shortly after takeoff...
...these recommendations have the problem of overgenerality," Riesman said. "There are no snap solutions. The problem seems so enormous...
...getting lower. Last month oil imports to the U.S. fell 9.6% from a year earlier. Stockpiles in Western countries equal only 94 days of consumption, the lowest for the month of October since 1979. As soon as oil companies begin topping off their tanks for the winter, prices may snap back. Said a confident Mani Said al-Oteiba, Oil Minister of the United Arab Emirates: "It's a matter of weeks.'' -By Stephen Koepp...
...good autumn week, a commercial fisherman trawling for shrimp along the Atlantic Coast off Georgia or the Carolinas can usually bring in a catch of about 1,200 lbs. But this season is a disaster because the crop was killed off by a cold snap in December. Last week the nets were pulling in a disappointing 500 lbs. or less. For hundreds of fisher men in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida who make their living from shrimp the dismal catch has brought severe financial strains. Many fear foreclosure on their boats and homes. Says Leonard Crosby, president of the Bryan...