Word: equipped
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South Africa said it is prepared to train and equip troops in Mozambique to defend a 700-mile regional power grid that will resume service later this year. The move could ease tensions between the two countries over allegations that South Africa backs rebels who are trying to topple the Mozambican government...
Several industrial agreements have been signed since November. In the first of these ventures, Connecticut-based Combustion Engineering will provide machinery and software for managing petroleum production at refineries. Minnesota's Honeywell will equip Soviet fertilizer plants with high-tech manufacturing equipment. Occidental Petroleum will build two factories to supply plastics for food packaging, vinyl floors and other uses. Chevron is * discussing an oil-exploration venture, while Monsanto is negotiating joint production of a weed-killing herbicide...
Many U.S. record executives prefer a tougher solution. They are urging Congress to force the DAT manufacturers to equip their machines with a computer chip that will block the copying of prerecorded music altogether. But while Congress considers the matter in its usual deliberate fashion, some DAT makers are accelerating their assault on the U.S. market. Their reasoning: if enough Americans buy DAT recorders, Congress will be loath to interfere with how they are used...
...corporations are demanding more literate, computer-sophisticated workers, New York's 940,000 public school students are afflicted by a one-third dropout rate. The blue-ribbon Commission on the Year 2000, which studied New York's needs, has called the public schools a "deteriorated system that fails to equip a shockingly large proportion of the students who enter it for the world in which they will live...
...have two grown sons and a daughter), divide their time between a waterfront condominium in Boston and a summer house on Martha's Vineyard. At the Vineyard, a 24-ft. sailboat is Solow's primary passion. He plans to use part of his $340,000 Nobel Prize money to equip the boat with a new Genoa jib. "I've been just a poor academic up to now," he says, noting that the value of his only other major asset, his share of the M.I.T. pension fund, was reduced in last week's debacle. But some good may yet come...