Word: yds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rickety $4,000 motor home and turns on his scanner to hear the chatter between drivers and crew chiefs. Holmes saved up for two months to come to the race with his stepfather, two sons and a nephew. He doesn't know it, but 75 yds. away in a somewhat more elaborate rig, Texaco CEO Peter Bijur is getting ready to root for Kenny Irwin in the Havoline...
...authorities found the burned-out Pontiac Grand Prix that had been rented by Gina's mother Carole Sund, 42, for a holiday trip to Yosemite National Park with her daughter Julie, 15, and Silvina Pelosso, 16, a friend from Argentina. Opening the trunk of the charred wreck, hidden 100 yds. off a remote highway, law-enforcement officials discovered two bodies. By week's end, the victims had not yet been identified nor the cause of death released. There was some speculation that the blaze was so intense, a third body may have been completely incinerated...
...Green's gamble has paid off handsomely. Moss has scored 11 touchdowns, gained 1,014 yds.--and up to this point has avoided penalties off the field. He's a top candidate for Rookie of the Year. Such vindication strikes a personal chord for Green, who grew up in a tough section of Harrisburg, Pa. "I saw a guy who had made some mistakes but was willing to fight it out," Green says of his decision to draft Moss. "Being an inner-city guy myself and having to fight for everything I've ever had, I felt that I understood...
...course of five years workers excavated 3.7 million cu. yds. of rock and poured 4.4 million cu. yds. of concrete; the main arch of the dam towers 70 stories high. Steve was first in charge of transportation, engineering and administration. When his father died suddenly in 1933, he became chief executive of the whole project, which transformed the economy of much of the West, as well as transforming the company...
...million project, like the Suez Canal that preceded it, was an epic assault on nature that employed as many as 43,400 workers at a time--many of whom succumbed to yellow fever while clearing the mosquito-infested swamps. More than 211 million cu. yds. of earth and rock were moved to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The canal cut the voyage from New York to California by 7,800 miles. Leased by the U.S., it returns to Panamanian sovereignty...