Word: arsenale
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...getting older. That means more people are entitled to benefits, and the average beneficiary, being older, has more health problems. It is growing because health-care costs in general are increasing. And it is growing because wonderful but expensive new weapons are constantly being added to the medical arsenal...
...Disclosing the biological weapons arsenal is significant, but it may not be enough," says Defense correspondent Mark Thompson ofSaddam Hussein's newfound honesty.Now that the Iraqi leader has admitted to U.N. officials that he harbored agerm warfare programthroughout the Gulf War, Thompson says, "we know he doesn't have any weapons of mass destruction, but he still uses AK-47s on the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south." International attention, he adds, is now focused squarely on whether the U.S. will permit lifting crippling economic sanctions against Iraq...
...long and 5 ft. in diameter, weighing 10,000 lbs.--was loaded into another of the 509th Group's B-29s at Tinian. The plane and its complement of escorts took off the next morning at 3:47 and headed for Kokura, a city that contained a major weapons arsenal, on the north coast of the island of Kyushu. Finding the target obscured by clouds and facing a fuel shortage on the strike plane, Major Charles W. Sweeney decided to fly over the alternate target on his way to an emergency landing on Okinawa...
What prompted the "raid" was Katona's arsenal of machine guns. Under the National Firearms Act of 1934, anyone hoping to buy a machine gun must first fill out a federal authorization and have it signed by the chief law-enforcement officer of the community. Until September 1988 Katona was an auxiliary Bucyrus police officer and took his forms to his boss, Chief Joseph Beran--an immense, bearded man with a shaved head and a passion for Harley-Davidson motorcycles. At one point, Katona claims, the chief presigned a large stack of forms. Beran denies...
Olajuwon has taken his talent to progressively higher levels, adding a new dimension every year: better free-throw shooting, a base-line jumper, a new hook shot. The player who once said, "I like to dunk and dunk and dunk" now has a dozen shots in his arsenal. He is a center who plays with the work ethic of a point guard and the range of a small forward, and the evolution of his game has led to the revolution of the pivot position. Shaq is reminiscent of Wilt Chamberlain. Hakeem is, well, Hakeem...