Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stray dog, who located the tree hole where the nocturnal animal was sleeping. Although five specimens were preserved for museums between 1875 and 1965, scientists knew little about them. Meier found that they are about 14 cm (5.5 in.) long, with a slightly longer furry tail, and weigh less than a chocolate bar. After releasing his quarry, Meier watched as the animal stuffed insects into its mouth while swinging from branches by its hind legs. "I almost died laughing," he says...
...modify their planes to prevent the kind of hydraulic failure that caused a United Airlines DC-10 to crash in Sioux City, Iowa, last July, leaving 112 dead. Expected to take effect this summer, the order calls on U.S. airlines to install a hydraulic shutoff valve in the tail section of 243 DC-10s at a collective cost of $7.7 million...
...such bright spots mainly show how good Gromyko's book might have been had he not chosen to keep his tail between his legs. Memoirs is too often a turgid history cum travelog speckled with diplomatic slavishness. "Staff at the Foreign Ministry did not discuss the purge trials," he says of the Stalinist era. "As diplomats, we avoided the subject." As a result, his book is destined for the dustheap of famous-people-I-have-met books...
...director of a lucrative car-servicing center, the head of a local food emporium. They profit by the disorders to carry on their business. If we can't jail them, let's at least intern them in a sanatorium on the Volga River. We have been cutting off the tail without getting at the source...