Word: burnering
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Germany and the U.S. have put former Soviet countries' lax control over weapons-grade plutonium on the international front burner. In Germany, where police have now seized four caches of smuggled plutonium, Chancellor Helmut Kohl demanded guarantees from Russia that it would step up efforts to crack down on thefts from nuclear plants. He had the full backing of the U.S. Other German officials said they want Europe's fledgling police agency, Europol, and German spies to fight the smugglers. Russia, despite solid German evidence to the contrary, denied that even one grain of its plutonium is missing. But TIME...
...towards its cousins eases the pressure on Western countries to punish the Bosnian Serbs, who rejected a peace plan last week. "Milosevic is doing all the dirty work for (the West)," says Graff. "So any consideration of real robust military actions does not have to be on the front burner...
Those doing course work will use the Hewlett-Packard work terminals, Burner said. While general use options will be available from the Hewlett-Packard machines, users will be encouraged to use the Sparcserver for non-course work...
...Hewlett-Packards do not work well as multi-user machines," Burner said. "They're something you're supposed to sit down...
...Burner said that the new server itself,when combined with the recently-installeduninterruptable power supply, is supposed todramatically reduce the amount of system downtime...