Word: strings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most banks, a customer clad in nothing but a string bikini would draw stares and possibly disrupt business. But at Brazil's BancoMovel (mobile bank), many of the best-dressed people wear mostly suntan lotion. Housed in small red 9-ft. by 5-ft. trailers, two of these automated tellers-on-wheels are stationed in or around beach resorts near Rio and Sao Paulo, providing cash around the clock to customers who may leave home without their clothes but never without their electronic banking cards...
NTSB Chairman Burnett contends, furthermore, that FAA inspectors too often develop a cozy relationship with the airlines they are assigned to monitor. Inspectors and airlines, says Burnett, go through a "choreographed dance." One example: Eastern had a string of problems with missing O rings on engines in its L-1011 jumbos that caused seven forced landings. At a hearing on the problem, Burnett asked the top FAA inspector watching Eastern whether he ever checked the airline's maintenance procedures. No, said the inspector, but he had discussed the problem with Eastern's vice president for maintenance. Burnett's acid response...
...packed for the trip home, Olebogeng looked around his dorm room, an 18-ft.-sq. space, lit by a single bulb, which he shares with 19 others. A coal-burning stove provides the only heat in winter and helps dry the rows of fetid clothes that hang on string lines. The miners sleep on pads on top of grimy two-level cement-slab bunks and store their possessions in small wooden lockers. One of Olebogeng's roommates was still there, packing T shirts for his two young daughters. "I'm gone so much, I'm surprised they recognize me," said...
...string of three straight road matches against St. Lawrence, Clarkson and Yale in January pose a significant threat to a perfect ECAC record. The last Harvard team to romp unbeaten through the conference was the 1974-'75 squad, which finished the season fourth in the NCAAs...
Diving has almost become a given for Harvard, with most of the competition lately arising between Crimson sophomores Jenny Greene and Lisa Pierce. On Saturday, Greene kept her unbeaten string alive with victories on both the 1 and 3-meter boards, and has now won eight consecutive competitions...