Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RUNNING EMPTY Worried about toting a potentially incendiary jug of extra fuel in your trunk? Your answer may be Spare Tank. It's a gasoline derivative much less combustible than ordinary gas, thus less likely to explode. Still, it packs enough punch, when mixed with residual fuel in your tank, to get you to the next station. Cost: a high-octane $24.99 a gallon...
...words were disturbing enough, but I visibly jumped several minutes later when the loud detonation of a propane tank echoed across the grounds of Griffiss Air Force Base...
...came time to think about what to do with his life, "he was torn between his desire for public service and his desire for a career in theater or the arts," says Ted Van Dyk, a family friend. Van Dyk ran the Center for Democratic Policy, a liberal think tank in Washington, where Kennedy served an internship during the summer between his sophomore and junior years at Brown. "He had never really been to Washington," says Van Dyk. "He didn't even know where the White House was." Jackie had made a conscious decision to shield him from the capital...
...busting $4.9 billion jury verdict awarded against General Motors in Los Angeles. After a 10-week trial, a 12-member panel ordered the company to pay the sum ? $107 million in compensatory damages and $4.8 billion in punitive damages ? to six people who were severely burned when the fuel tank in their Chevrolet Malibu exploded during a rear-end collision. The plaintiffs claimed the car should have been designed with a fuel tank further removed from the rear bumper...
...hunters drove out of Kosovo as the people they once hunted drove in. Stuck in a 12-mile-long convoy, Marinko sat atop his army tank surveying the exodus with the cold, dead eyes of a four-year veteran of the Yugoslav army. Marinko is a Kosovar Serb, and he concedes no defeat. "I will take my parents to Belgrade, relieve myself of military duties and return to my home in Pec," he said. "This is all I have. And if the Albanians want to come and take it from me, then let them make my day. I'll kill...