Word: tankful
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...remaining 30%. In his absence, aides filled the press with speculation, seeking to test congressional and public-and no doubt White House-reaction to recommendations they might make when Reagan returns this week. Some were obviously prompted by a sweeping study prepared by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that takes credit for many of the initiatives launched in Reagan's first term (see box). Among the programs getting the most scrutiny from budget cutters...
...exactly 5:42 a.m., just when the coming day seems to hesitate between darkness and dawn. Suddenly a torrent of fire from an exploding gas tank surged more than 300 ft. into the sky over the Mexico City suburb of San Juan Ixhuatepec, splashing it with hellish waves of orange, yellow, red, black. The chill dawn air became searing...
Pemex's safety record is spotty. A 25,000-gal. gasoline-storage tank exploded in the central Mexican city of Tula last January. No one was injured then, but one died and 33 were hurt in another explosion in June in the state of Tabasco. A week later, a pipeline leak in Veracruz intoxicated 16. Inhabitants of San Juan Ixhuatepec claim a fire broke out there last June, but neighborhood protests got nowhere. Pemex Spokesman Salvador del Rio denies this, saying that there were no recent fires and that maintenance was "done continually...
Western analysts were puzzled as to exactly what Gaddafi had hoped to achieve by the assassination of Bakkush or the doublecrossing of France over the Chad pullout. Referring to Chad, Dominique Moïsi of the Institut Français des Relations Internationales, a Paris-based think tank, suggested, "It could be some thing as simple as Third World pride. He wanted to negotiate on his conditions. He had told the French that he wanted two months to evacuate [instead of the 45 days stipulated in the Franco-Libyan agreement that became effective on Sept. 25]. It looks like...
Many special favors go far beyond the usual borders of banking. Customers at Houston's Medical Center Bank with at least $100,000 in their accounts are welcome to borrow the company airplane, a six-passenger Navajo Chieftain. They are asked only to fill the gas tank. At a customer's request, the bank will dispatch its limousine or arrange for theater tickets. The bank, which is situated at the Texas Medical Center, decided in 1978 to devote itself entirely to doctors and other wealthy customers. Says Chairman Donald Neuenschwander: "You can't be all things...