Word: load
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Long street in the seamy port of Qui Nhon, South Viet Nam's third-biggest city, two troopers from the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade halted their three-quarter-ton truck. Whether they stopped to shift their load, as they said, or to grab a beer or a whore, is beside the point. Within minutes, one of a legion of larcenous Vietnamese urchins surrounding the truck had made off with a fire extinguisher...
...Royal Opera's annual $6,400,000 budget, Gentele never had to bother with such problems as fund raising and the kind of bitter union bargaining that last year forced the Met to cancel half its season. If the Met has its way, the fund-raising load may be lighter in the future: last week the company announced that it was actively seeking Government support for the first time in its history...
...unions' original demands included pay increases amounting to 40 or 45 per cent over three years and reconsideration of the railroads' proposed work rule changes which would eliminate thousands of jobs as well as speed up the work load for all employees...
...there is the perennial problem of resource allocation to the various shops. "We will strive for equity within the formula of resource allocation according to service load in the school," said Sizer...
SINCE the bombing of Laos began some five years ago, F-4 Phantom and F105 Thunderchief fighter bombers which carry 10,000 to 15,000 pounds of bombs, and B-52s which carry four to six times that bomb load, have made daily runs. This past year they are reported to have flown over 20,000 sorties a month. This is over Sam Neua and the Plain of Jars area alone, which does not include the saturation bombing of the Ho Chi Minh trail in Southern Laos. The result, as U. S. Ambassador to Laos G. McMurtire Godley testified before...