Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dilger's 8-ft. cannon was in the back of his Dodge pickup truck when he pulled into a gas station in Arlington, Va. After filling up his gas tank, he started showing the weapon to his friend Joseph Donahue, a former Army pilot. Suddenly the gun slipped and discharged a shell, which tore through the side of the pickup, ignited a gasoline pump, hit a car and injured four people, three of them seriously. Dilger fled the scene but was arrested a short distance away. He and Donahue were charged with violating a state law against the manufacture...
Economic Policy Institute, Washington. Founded by five economists, including Jeff Faux, this think tank will develop alternatives to Reaganomics...
Council on Economic Priorities, New York City. A small think tank that looks at budget issues and wasteful Pentagon spending...
...ordinary income into capital gains. Dollars will flow to the most productive uses rather than being diverted into agricultural enterprises designed to lose money on paper or into half-empty office buildings and shopping malls that offer tax advantages. Says Joseph Minarek of the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank: "What the tax system can really do for growth is just get the hell...
...appealing main character make for a somewhat choppy narrative. Intrigues within the Politburo are interspersed with tense moments in the control rooms of submarines deep in the Atlantic, arguments among analysts in Scotland, daring assaults by fighter pilots on satellites, feats by covert commandos and battlefield maneuvers by intrepid tank commanders. The tightly focused Hunt for Red October allowed Clancy to develop the psychological and even religious motivations of the main characters. For too much of Red Storm Rising, the humans are obscured by the afterburn of their weapons systems...