Word: oak
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Last week the Kazakhstan inventory of uranium was half a ton lighter as officials in Washington and the Kazakh capital of Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata) announced that the team, after six weeks of feverish activity, had successfully moved the material to the Oak Ridge nuclear-storage facility in Tennessee. Over the next several months, the Energy Department will entertain offers from private industry to turn the highly enriched uranium into lower- grade commercial reactor fuel. The Administration touted the mission as a good reason to keep money flowing to the beleaguered Nunn-Lugar account. The fund -- named for sponsors Senator...
...cargo plane carrying humanitarian aid -- worked day and night for six weeks to secure the material in 1,400 steel canisters. A member of the U.S. team, Alex Reidy, an arms control analyst for a branch of Martin Marietta that runs the Energy Department's storage facility at Oak Ridge, Tenn., said the material was quite accessible. "It does not take a great deal of sophistication to work with some of this material," he said, "so here was a real significant proliferation threat."Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...Francisco a 15-year-old boy named John curls up under a big oak tree in the panhandle of Golden Gate Park whenever he has to cry. It is usually about once a month, late in the evening after too much cheap wine. He pulls his black leather jacket over his head and presses his knees against his chest, under cover because he cannot be seen crying in Golden Gate Park. There are too many other homeless people looking for any advantage...
...reluctant to face the rigors of the campaign. While other lawmakers were rushing for the ! first flight home after the close of the congressional session, the Speaker lingered around Washington for five precious days. A prominent Democrat was startled to encounter Foley enjoying a leisurely workout at the exclusive, oak-paneled University Club in downtown Washington...
...private quarters of Air Force One President Bush quietly wept. It wasn't the polls, which had him fading It was the Oak Ridge Boys. They're traveling with the President and got going on some gospel songs." -- St. Petersburg Times, November...