Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...primitive airports, shallow ports and unpaved roads, troops will have to improvise as they go. "This is a classic bring-your-own operation," says one four-star Army logistician. That means supplying their own night lights at the airport, radar systems for air-traffic control, generators -- and then fuel to run them. Logistics managers are sending three times the normal spare parts, worried that sand could be a constant problem...
...within hours after food intake stops. The body quickly burns through its reserves of sugars in the blood and starches stored in the liver and muscles. It then begins raiding fat deposits for triglycerides, compounds that can be broken down into fatty acids that the body can use for fuel. After days or weeks, depending on how meager the rations, these raids result in a condition known as marasmus. Without fat to support it, the skin begins to lose elasticity and sag. Loss of fat around the eyes gives them a sunken look, and the face starts to wrinkle...
Supporters say the program reduces demand forelectricity, thereby reducing fuel consumptionfrom power plants and cutting down on pollution...
...anything been done about the threat of nuclear contamination in the oceans. Over the years four Soviet submarines, their reactors full of nuclear fuel, sank accidentally. The most dangerous, the world was reminded last week, may be the Komsomolets, which caught fire in April 1989 and went down in more than 4,500 ft. of water 310 miles off the coast of Norway. The wreck is already leaking cesium-137, a carcinogenic isotope. So far the leakage is considered too small to affect marine life or human health...
Since the Vaktins have no car, rising fuel prices do not directly affect them. But the cost of train and plane tickets has curbed any vacation plans; a single train ticket from Voronezh to Moscow has jumped from 10 rubles to 230. Holidays are strictly limited to the family's dacha 16 miles away, which they reach by a special bus costing 14 rubles...