Word: arming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...polar ice caps. On the surface, the landers began providing the most accurate measurements yet of Martian surface temperatures, atmospheric density and wind velocity, while the cameras shot more than 4,500 spectacular close-up pictures of the surrounding, rock- strewn landscape. Each lander was also equipped with an arm that scooped up soil samples and fed them to a little onboard biological laboratory, where they were analyzed for any signs of metabolic activity, which would signify life...
Fitzwater made clear that the money would bechanneled through some third-party organization orintermediary, such as the Red Crescent, an arm ofthe Red Cross, and not the Iranian government...
...last week and understood how others might not sense the stress. Behind him the low hills along the Missouri were beige, fringed with the green of buckbush and cottonwoods, durable species. "This time of year it should all be beautiful green," he said with a sweep of his muscled arm. The land is muted, it is leached, some of the soul sucked out and blown away. A farmer sees and knows about those things...
...living room. Another bottle landed in the tiny bedroom where the nine-year-old girl and six-year-old boy lay sleeping with others. One of them was splashed from head to foot. "Her panties were burned into her flesh," said their aunt, Nomsameli Molefe, her own burned arm in a bandage. "The other child caught it mostly in the face...
...leverage will be strong. At Rogers' urging, a district council of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is threatening to withdraw $15 million from a banking subsidiary of PNC. Reason: W. Craig McClelland, executive vice president of IP, sits on PNC's board. Such strong-arm tactics give hope to William Meserve, the president of the United Paperworkers' Local 14 in Jay. Meserve calls Rogers "the only effective tool we could bring in" and "probably the workingman's biggest friend...