Word: ton
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...Gogan said the College does have to pay for whatever increased tonnage the Houses generate. He estimated that in both May and June of this year, the Houses would generate about 600 tons of waste--about 200 tons more than usual per month. Since each ton of waste costs about $60, the College can expect to pay some $12,000 extra per month...
McKinley, who lived in Kirkland House, remembers hearing from his room "a ton of noise and the trains screeching...
...McKinley, who lived in Kirkland House, remembers hearing from his room " a ton of noise and the trains screeching...
...satellite in Sichuan province in February 1996 was a fiery disaster. The Chinese-made Long March rocket that was supposed to propel the American satellite into space crashed into a hillside 22 sec. after lift-off and exploded, raining flaming rocket fuel and red-hot shards of the 3-ton satellite on a nearby village. China initially said six villagers choked or burned to death, and later upped the number to 56, but U.S. estimates put the fatalities closer...
...just one-half of a digital double whammy. This summer AOL will start rolling out high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL) access to more than 16 million Bell Atlantic customers. Expect a ton of those annoying pop-up ads trumpeting the fact, and a slew of stories on Case's ominous-sounding broadband strategy, known in the trade as "AOL Everywhere...