Word: hybrid
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...Scud missiles fired against Israel and Saudi Arabia, for instance, were bought from the Soviet Union but were upgraded with equipment and expertise purchased from other nations. France provided guidance systems, Germany and Italy improved propulsion, and Brazil assembled the parts. Iraq's underground aircraft shelters were also hybrid creations. According to European press reports, Belgians designed the shelters, Swiss provided air-filtration units, Italians blastproof doors, and Britons and Germans the electrical power generators...
More startling attempts to cater to the jaded palate are due in the next few years. Norwegian scientists are perfecting something called the tunge sole, a hybrid that grows fast, tastes like delicate Dover sole and has enormous commercial potential. At Maine's Darling Marine Center, specialists are breeding an electric-blue lobster (an extreme rarity in the wild) as a future food source. It also provides a brilliantly visible marker for checking on the success rate of hatcheries...
Throughout On the Verge these "Victorian lady travellers" engage in an endless volley of pithy, alliterative, and highly allusive language. Plagiarizing from sources as varied as Joyce, Shakespeare, and the slang of fifties Americana, they wend their way through the kaleidoscopic landscape of "Terra Incognita," a territorial hybrid of the 19th century African Congo and the Land of the Blue Meanies from the Beatles' acid-crazed 1967 animation, "Yellow Submarine." This land is to be imagined rather than perceived: at the playwright's behest the set is relatively sparse...
...born ten years ago when the brothers bought a decrepit movie house in Buffalo, renovated it and started showing films that drew a college crowd. With the profits, they began buying and distributing movies. Their first was The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, a rock music-comedy hybrid purchased in 1982 for $180,000 that earned $6 million...
...When the hybrid National Opposition Union realized last year that to challenge Ortega it needed star quality on its presidential ticket, the magic Chamorro name was again decisive. Wary of wading back into politics, the silver-haired widow at first demurred, but she accepted the nomination at the urging of her husband's spirit, with whom she says she communes regularly...