Word: cannoneering
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...RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Bush has proposed a $1.4 billion increase for missile-defense research, but the program will need billions more in coming years. And Rumsfeld's vision of a modern military will require money for smaller, faster vehicles; unmanned drone planes; a mobile, giant cannon; killer satellites. Without a public clamor for big defense budgets, those dollars may never appear...
...sure, Enron has opened a new wind turbine plant south of Madrid, right in the heart of the European market. And Cannon, a U.S. wind-energy developer, has launched big projects in Turkey. But the wind turbines Cannon is installing are made by Danish firms...
...Brooklyn, Brooklyn, I’m sick of hearing it,” legendary sportswriter Jimmy Cannon wrote in the New York Post in 1952. “The way they talk, you think it was a whole country with an army and a king or something. All they got is a ball club.” Maybe Cannon was right, but it couldn’t have been just any ball club. Not with the way the borough’s identity vanished in ’57 and the way the current revival has moved some aging baby...
...using the Gaza airport. Across the beachfront promenade from the Dolphinarium, Israeli rioters besieged the Hassan Bek mosque even as the Cabinet met. Rioters wearing swimsuits crossed from the beach to the mosque to hurl stones at a few dozen worshipers and to charge police, who brought up water cannon and horses. Even many of the left-wingers who support the peace process are on board with Sharon's tough line. When U.S. envoy William Burns met with top Israeli politicians last Monday, Sharon stepped aside and let archdove Shimon Peres make the government's anti-Arafat pitch...
...when over the horizon came the throbbing of huge horsepower, more powerful than anything normally found in the waters off the Philippines' rugged western Palawan province. The speedboat had no lights; only when it pulled alongside, its rolling wake slapping his wooden outrigger, did Cervantes see the 50-mm cannon rigged on the bows, the 24 men in jungle fatigues and balaclavas, the M-16s pointed at his chest. "Take us to Dos Palmas," demanded a voice with a southern Mindanao accent. Cervantes was to get his visit after...