Word: mortars
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...things begin to heat up. Loud explosions from bombs dropped by U.S. F-16s can be heard in the center of the city. The insurgents respond with two salvos of mortar fire against Easy Company's base. Captain John Bailey, a soft-spoken F-18 pilot temporarily assigned here as a forward air controller, hauls his laser equipment onto the roof. He focuses his laser on a two-story building at the edge of town. He radios the pilot of an F-16 and orders an air strike. "Come on, bird," he says to himself. "You're going...
...titles and immediately released to the world even fuller-fledged legends than before they came. For this is the time when academic sanctity deserts the cloisters of the American college, and when the square-cut military jaw or the hardened business countenance is to be seen under the mortar board of the Doctor of Letters. Generals, statesmen, merchants, lawyers, and engineers have their innings. They hear a few well-chosen words recounting their achievements and receive a few more letters which they will never use after their names...
...favored bold urban re-engineering, as demonstrated not only by his Roppongi Hills mini-city in Tokyo but also a project in Shanghai to build the world's tallest building. From anyone else, that might seem like delusional self-aggrandizement, but Mori actually has the muscle to put some mortar behind his message. Take the $2.25 billion, 27-acre Roppongi Hills. The project, which opened 12 months ago, was carved from more than 400 smaller building lots that Mori systematically pieced together over 14 years. It features a 54-story office tower and 793 apartments, integrated with shops, restaurants, parks...
...brother Akira has no such grand visions. A bricks-and-mortar guy, he gravitated toward more modest, financially conservative projects. Rather than squabbling unproductively, the brothers parted ways in 1999, splitting the family empire into Minoru's Mori Building (with $1.3 billion in sales and 122 buildings under management) and Akira's Mori Trust ($949 million in sales and 68 buildings under management). "A boat can't have two captains," Akira says...
Unless a buyer is found, Grolier will close down soon after more than 75 years of continuous operation. During that period it provided more than poetry to the community; Grolier transformed itself from a bricks-and-mortar building into part of the soul and essence of the Cambridge neighborhood. Poets including e.e. cummings ’15, T.S. Eliot ’10 and Allen Ginsberg were once frequent visitors. And so, when Grolier closes its doors for the last time, when the last slim volume passes over the counter, the entire city will be poorer...