Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forward tank of the Norwegian tanker Tamano ruptured on Saturday and 40,000 gallons of industrial fuel spilled into the Bay. The mishap occured when the tanker, attempting to reach an anchorage, struck Soldier's Ledge, which rises to within 40 feet of the surface...
...director of the four-year-old U.S.A. Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Arbatov heads a think tank of approximately 80 so-called Amerikanisti-the Kremlin's answer to Kremlinologists. They represent a new breed of Soviet information specialist who analyze facts rather than churn out propaganda. "We are neither professional peacemakers nor professional propagandists," Arbatov told TIME Correspondent John Shaw in Moscow last week, as he puffed on a Winston. "We are Marxists-Leninists, but within that frame of reference there is plenty of scope for understanding...
...Vietnamese aircraft kept up a continuous bombardment throughout the three days I was in An Loc. Every sort of aerial weaponry was used: Catling guns, CBU attacks, conventional bombs and finally, two hours before sunset on Thursday, a B-52 strike 900 meters to the northwest against a Communist tank concentration. But the guns keep moving, and rounds keep coming in. Right now, the situation in An Loc is considered calm, despite the unnerving intrusion of an average of 200 rounds...
...years, Washington's economic managers face a dismal three-way choice: raise taxes severely, slash federal spending brutally, or countenance rapid inflation. That is the hard conclusion of a major new study of federal finance by the Brookings Institution, the nation's most prestigious private economic think tank. Release of the study last week immediately sharpened a basic campaign debate over the issues of how much social service Americans should expect from the Federal Government and how heavily they should be taxed to pay the bills...
...profits dropped dramatically after World War II. That could happen again when the Viet Nam War ends, but the switch to civilian production makes that much less likely than it would have been a few years ago. The laconic Kenneth Norris argues further that "people tend to forget that tank and artillery crews are always burning up shells in training...