Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slick. Said Miami Fire Lieut. Luis Fernandez: "We've had to pull the airboats out of the water. It's not like the ocean; there's no water circulating, so there's no way for the fuel to dissipate. What we're having to do is land on high ground and then have our rescuers slush through four feet of water." With that kind of contact come the natural hazards of the swamp: alligators and snakes...
...part, the Likud finally and officially buried old threats to undo the peace agreements that established Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. According to the party's new platform, a Likud government would "honor international agreements" and "recognize the facts created on the ground by the various accords." Netanyahu, having said he would never meet with Yasser Arafat, was compelled to concede that he might...
...Kappen found evidence that no fewer than 36 Israeli shells had landed in or near the U.N. camp, concentrating in two areas. According to his report, the first pocket, 120 yds. south of the base, was struck almost exclusively by "impact-fuzed" shells, which explode when they hit the ground. These rounds, which are most effective at destroying equipment and munitions, landed close to where Hizballah had been firing a mortar at a nearby Israeli ground unit. The second area, located in the U.N. base itself, was hit mainly by "proximity-fuzed" shells, which are designed to detonate above...
...therefore, distressing that some important European officials are privately writing off Dayton's political provisions and preparing the ground for de facto partition next year. Partition is not inevitable, but the agreements will surely fail if those responsible for carrying them out are not completely committed to them...
...movie, Dorothy is packed with golf ball-size radio transmitters that are supposed to fly up into the vortex and relay data to ground-based computers. The idea is not all that farfetched, according to real-life storm chasers (some of whom acted as scientific consultants on the film). They speculate, though, that most of the flying transmitters would be blown away from the vortex or destroyed by debris. Over the years, researchers have proposed all sorts of zany schemes for getting instruments into a tornado's heart, including blasting at the twister with instrumented rockets and probing it with...