Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ready to get serious," they reply encouragingly. What he doesn't know, of course, is that they're thinking metaphorically, with a little help from director Scott, with whose surrealistic reinvention of the West -- one-third desert, one-third industrial wasteland, one-third unzoned strip development -- this oil-truck rig fits right in. In Scott's eyes, and his heroines', it is a gigantic penis. And, yes, they are ready for that. Ready to blow it to smithereens with their little guns...
...juries failed to reach a verdict. Now the state, seeking to atone for old wrongs, is trying to extradite him from Tennessee to try him again for the killing. Henry himself was arrested several times for his civil rights activities, and was once chained and shackled to a garbage truck to keep him from escaping. He glances up at the piece of tin that covers the hole in the ceiling where a bomb was thrown in 1964. All that is dim history now to most of the world...
...this for a space station that does . . . nothing. In the interest of saving money, NASA planners stripped the station of its varied and often contradictory functions. No longer was it to be a truck stop or observation platform or metallurgical factory. The sole stated scientific rationale left for the station was to conduct biological research on weightlessness, but the plans originally omitted a centrifuge, the most important gadget needed to do that work. The National Academy of Sciences concluded that the space station had no scientific use at all. Which left as the main purpose of the station what cynics...
...Daniel Lee Moody and Ronald Terrell McCloud, were indicted in San Antonio last April for unlawfully conspiring to sell and transport a black leopard; McCloud has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. A sickening videotape shows the leopard being released from a cage and running under a nearby pickup truck. A pack of dogs flushed it out of hiding, and for $3,000, a "hunter" | from Louisiana had the privilege of shooting the panic-stricken animal...
...serve its research laboratories, the EQRF will feature a variety of floor layouts, including open laboratories as well as central work spaces. An animal facility will be located in the basement for investigators with rodents protected from biological contamination. A truck dock, central receiving area and mail room will also be located in the basement...