Word: disposall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since 1974, Air Force computers have automatically put many spare parts, ranging from bolts to airplane doors, on a disposal list if no request for the item has been received for twelve months. After checking just "a few" warehouses earlier this year, Air Force inspectors discovered that about $1.5 million...
Thomas Cooper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, reported these findings to members of a House Armed Services subcommittee, which scheduled hearings on the disposal of military surplus for later this month. Meanwhile, congressional investigators vied with Pentagon inspectors to see who could uncover the most tooth-gnashing tales of...
For Haitian peasants, the native black swine, the so-called cochon planche, has long been a combination bank account, mobile garbage-disposal unit and occasional religious prop. Haitian farmers, among the world's poorest, have relied on the pigs to produce income for medical care, weddings, funerals and education...
Fran Tate is cut of similar cloth. Beside her yearbook picture from her high school in Auburn, Wash., where she held down a newspaper route and set pins in a bowling alley, was written, "By the work one knows the workman." Fran thought this sketch of her character "was awful...
In addition, the photo of an Iranian woman, showing her scars from torture with broken glass, is a fake. There is no evidence that the wounds were inflicted while the woman was in prison, nor do you give her name, age, place of detention or political affiliation. A monafeghin (hypocrites...