College boy, Billy Hayes, strapped about 4 pounds of hashish around his torso before flying from Turkey to New York.
Roosevelt addressed Congress in March 1945 but remained seated, saying, "It makes it a lot easier for me not to have to carry about 10 pounds of steel around on the bottom of my legs".
You've still got trillions of pounds of debt around.
Maynor brought his trusty No. 28 (his father drove No. 82), a hefty, old-style stock car with 3,250 pounds of mass around a 550-horsepower engine.
Dr. Maricle, carting 30 pounds of equipment around, learned to play nearly every type of music to survive as a drummer.
The barrel is etched with a user's manual in Chinese and Manchu, explaining how to aim at 45-degree angles and pack pounds of gunpowder around the cannonballs.
A utility once considered boringly safe passed from offshore owner to offshore owner, who have run it for profits first, customers last – and hung billions of pounds of debt around its neck along the way.
Where else are you going to drive a hundred and twenty thousand pounds of machine around all day and get paid for doing it?" His life's work is the mother of all landfills, its innovations and pioneering techniques copied and studied.
An Australian-funded mining company has made several large finds of gold, potentially worth hundreds of millions of pounds, around the small village of Tyndrum, known best as a nondescript rest stop for the hordes of tourists and skiers passing north to Glen Coe, Fort William and Skye.
Capital investment in the North Sea fell to £4.9 billion last year, an especially worrying trend given that, thanks to higher costs and smaller finds, a pound of investment generates around a third as much oil today as it did in 2002 (see chart).Not all hope is lost, and oilmen list three possibilities for boosting production.
