Word: ton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole words. I guess if you had to make frequent calls to France, say, you could learn to live with it. "Hello, Watson," I say to my wife. "_es," she says, I think. "We need to return those pants," I say. There's a pause. "Not another _air of __ton-_ly __ousers!" she says, I think...
...kick off until 1999--a year behind Iridium's schedule. And this month Globalstar ran into a potentially more serious snag. Minutes after a Ukrainian-built Zenit-2 rocket carrying 12 Globalstar satellites thundered skyward from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sept. 10, its engine failed. The 460-ton rocket fell back to Earth, showering debris across southern Siberia and driving Globalstar's stock down 40% overnight. The $190 million payload was covered by insurance, but the disaster delayed the system's debut even further. It was a big blow. Like the first cold-beer vendor...
...think that the job market has been hurt yet, but there's more time spent interviewing for the right people. Even though they're looking for a ton of people, they're more cautious," he says...
...rugged cargo plane is uniquely suited to land on the short runway at Iceland's Heimaey airport. It's not as well equipped, unfortunately, for one of its primary missions: dropping parachuting G.I.'s rapidly into the world's hot spots. It seems that in flight, the hulking 300-ton plane kicks up a lot of turbulence. Such swirling atmospheric eddies can entangle soldiers in their parachute lines, collapse their chutes or hurl airborne paratroopers dangerously into one another. The Globemaster suffers particularly in comparison with its predecessor. A fleet of older C-141's can fly over a drop...
...Obviously, we have a ton of question marks from the outset," said coach Steve Locker. "But we also have a good number of long-term starters and experienced senior leaders...