Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home town is the cleanest, liveliest, fastest-growing or simply just the best place to live. The talk is part of the national pastime of comparing anything from batting averages to the busts of beauty contestants. Now along comes the Midwest Research Institute, a Kansas City, Mo., think tank with an avalanche of facts, figures and judgments. Funded by a grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency, MRI set out last year to measure the "quality of life" in the U.S.'s 243 official metropolitan areas, which range in size from New York (pop. 11.5 million) to Meriden, Conn...
...Hawk surface-to-air missiles. The largest item is up to $2.2 billion for Israel. As Defense Minister Shimon Peres prepared to fly to Washington this week to complete negotiations, one of his aides joked that the shopping list would include "everything that begins with the letter a-a tank, a missile, a plane...
...great old army tank, hit decades ago by an enemy shell, sunken in a shallow lagoon. The iron flaps of the tank's turret are rusted open, steadily washed over by the waves; its corroded gun defiantly trains on trenches and machine-gun nests, long buried in the sands of a deserted beach...
...apparently wounded. Kobrzynski sprinted 100 ft. down a grassy hill to help her. At that moment a bullet shattered Meeker's left elbow and hit a rib, a second slammed into the main combustion chamber of the chopper's turbine and a third struck near the fuel tank. "They're aimed shots," Meeker remembers thinking. "In five seconds we'll all be dead...
Strangely though, the industry is in about as much ferment as the bubbling wort in a brewer's tank. Small and some not so small regional brewers are constantly going under or at best being bought out by healthier competitors. Main reason: they cannot stand the competition of the Big Five: Anheuser-Busch, Jos. Schlitz, Pabst, Coors and Miller. The rivalry keeps industry prices and profit margins so low (3.8% of sales for Anheuser-Busch) that only the best-managed companies can survive. As a result, the five have increased their share of total barrelage from...