Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In some extreme cases, the crew members put the plane on automatic pilot, dump the drugs and bail out. Once on the ground, they locate the contraband by tuning to the radio signals from the parachuted cargo. The plane crashes when it runs out of fuel. The loss of a...
It was during the early 1970s that Times Beach, looking to keep down the summer dust, hired a fellow to spread oil on ten miles of unpaved streets. Unfortunately, the oilman also filled his truck with waste sludge from a downstate chemical factory, and so for at least a couple...
T. Boone Pickens and Irwin L. Jacobs, whose controversial financial maneuvers have netted them tens of millions of dollars, attempted to dispel the image of raiders as the bandits of Wall St.
But devaluation can no longer even be attempted by fiat, as used to be the case when every government set an official rate at which its currency could be exchanged for other monies. Under the system of floating exchange rates that has prevailed for the past dozen years, governments can...
Hurricane Gloria rolled through Harvard around 3 p.m. yesterday, with winds of up to 97 m.p.h. knocking over a dozen trees and causing tens of thousands of dollars of property damage. But it carried nowhere near as big a punch as students and administrators had expected.