Word: fleetly
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...desperate. They can see their livelihoods and way of life slipping away. "We do want the cod to recover," says Smith, "and we're doing our bit." The North Sea is two years into a cod-recovery plan, which is supported by fishermen and involves mothballing 20% of the fleet and increasing the mesh sizes of nets from 100 mm to 120 mm. The larger mesh size allows younger fish to escape and, it is hoped, breed. The target is to see an annual 30% increase in fish stocks. Park claims that the plan is working: "Cod has turned...
...instance, has been banned for 10 years because it is too messy. One year ago, Islamic terrorists hatched a plot to wreck the island's placidity. They planned to bomb the U.S., Australian and Israeli embassies, Singapore government buildings, and locales where sailors from the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet congregated. Singapore is well policed, however, and the plot was discovered; 13 people were arrested. But although the bombers were foiled, law-enforcement agencies around the world, still digesting the attacks of Sept. 11, recognized that a new front in the terrorists' war had just opened in Southeast Asia...
According to Edgar Flores, a dispatcher with DATTCO, the company’s fleet was overbooked on Friday, so the firm had to charter one of the buses from Double A Transportation...
...would require the notoriously sluggish auto industry to shift gears a lot faster than usual. For one thing, the roadside infrastructure that fuels and services today's gas guzzlers would have to be redesigned to dispense hydrogen and reprogram faulty control systems. But if the result were a fleet of safe, fuel-efficient, nonpolluting cars and trucks that reduced or eliminated the world's dependence on fossil fuel, it would be worth the effort. --By Anita Hamilton
...achieve - the much-touted reform of our military. Hungary today is not better equipped to contribute to the alliance than it was the day we joined." The Hungarian military remains, in the words of one observer, a "mini-mass army" with almost as many tanks as France and a fleet of vehicles that is decades out of date - few of which are readily deployable. When the U.S. asked allies to contribute to the war on terror, all Hungary could offer was a team of medical specialists, but without any equipment or means to get them to Afghanistan. Part...