Word: equips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hole six yards high and eight yards wide into the mountain. These had to be constantly replaced. Stop the supply of spare bits, the CIA men told Kohl's advisers, and the boring machines would soon become useless. Embarrassed by revelations in 1988 that German companies had helped equip the original Rabta plant, Kohl quickly ordered Westfalia-Becorit to shut down the spare-parts pipeline...
...these resource-poor countries to win the war against narco-trafficking. St. Kitts and Nevis continue to cooperate fully with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and they have entered into several treaty arrangements to fight the anathema of illicit drug trading. My government has undertaken to restructure, train and equip the local police force and coast guard in our fight to stem the flow of illegal drugs into our country. The drug problem is not of our own making. However, we remain committed to addressing it. GERALD DWYER ASTAPHAN, Minister Tourism, Culture and Environment St. Christopher and Nevis St. Kitts...
...supplied with older U.S. Army gear, General John Shalikashvili, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, notes that this could cause problems. "The training is not that easy if you give them U.S. or Western arms," he says. "They are now trained on and employ mostly former Soviet equipment." It may be smarter, defense officials say, to equip the Muslims with Soviet weaponry. (In the cold war's wake, Europe is awash in it.) Finally, the effort is likely to cost several hundred million dollars...
Weighty issues indeed, but we're really just splitting hairs. With two schools such as Harvard and Yale, the difference in the quality of education at each is not what it's about. There's little doubt about the ability of each institution to more than adequately equip its students for the graduate and professional years to come...
...artillery and radars. Once in place, the I-FOR troops, unlike the hapless U.N. peacekeepers, will go where they please and have "the unimpeded right to observe, monitor and inspect'' whatever they like. All sides, moreover, are committed to working out military parity. To accomplish this, the U.S. will equip and train the weaker Bosnian army while the Serbs, in turn, will be required to trim back their forces...