Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger argued that the Vietnamese had already involved Cambodia in the war by establishing bases there. Shawcross cites previously classified U.S. documents to demonstrate that the ground fighting in Cambodia began only after the U.S. launched the secret B-52 raids in 1969. Those raids drove many Hanoi troops out of the border areas and into central Cambodia, where they inevitably tangled with the ill-equipped Cambodian army. As the fighting progressed, the Vietnamese forces inside Cambodia were steadily supplanted by the indigenous Khmer Rouge guerrillas...
OPEC'S production cutbacks are aggravating the operational headaches. To begin with, not every refinery can process every grade of crude. From high-quality Nigerian oil that contains almost no sulfur at all to the heavy goo that glubs from the ground in Kuwait, petroleum covers a wide range of viscosities and weights. But not all refineries can handle every kind of oil, and as OPEC's squeeze has intensified, supplies of light oil used for gasoline have tightened...
Puzzled by the sudden appearance of green flakes on the ground in the Yard? You will be relieved to know that it is nothing more than fibrous mulch...
Cornman was in on the act with keen stickchecking moves which repeatedly forced Dartmouth turnovers and brought the ball back into Crimson hands. Anne Velie lead Harvard's recovery squad with 15 ground ball pick...
...would say decontrol should be accompanied by this 'plowback' provision which compels money to go into the ground to increase supplies or increase research and development," the co-founder of a Texas-based oil firm said...