Word: tractor
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...dusty half-acre potato patch near the tiny (pop. 1,000) farming community of Tulelake, Calif., scientists in canary yellow overalls clambered aboard a tractor last week and began what looked like a workaday farmyard chore. They were planting ordinary potatoes, 2,000 tubers in all, that had been treated with an extraordinary additive: a genetically altered bacterium designed to inhibit the formation of frost. This experiment -- and a similar one performed only five days earlier -- marked a turning point in the efforts of scientists to apply the advances of recombinant DNA technology to agriculture: the first authorized release...
Witnesses said at least three cars and a tractor-trailer tumbled into the rain-swollen Schoharie Creek below the highway, part of Interstate...
...tractor-trailer and a white Cadillac with one body inside were found late Sunday, when that body was recovered. A gray Cadillac was found yesterday morning with the bodies also were recovered...
...tractor-trailer was in swirling water about a quartermile from the bridge, but crews could not pull it out because of the strong current and officials were uncertain if anyone was trapped inside...
...union charges collusion, but the thought of these 26 owners doing anything in complete concert seems as preposterous as Ron Guidry lingering on - his tractor over a matter of $50,000 while Steinbrenner replaces him with a pitcher (Tommy John, 46) three years older than Hall of Famer-elect Catfish Hunter. Detroit Manager Sparky Anderson, who ultimately retrieved Morris but lost Catcher Lance Parrish to Philadelphia, is typically philosophical. "Babe Ruth is buried in Baltimore ((Hawthorne, N.Y., to be irrelevantly accurate))," he says, spitting, "and the game goes...