Word: ramps
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...place where the Knights Templars hatched their plots). When Awwad was done in early 2000, it was dubbed the Marwani Mosque. Awwad hauled thousands of tons of rubble from a massive new entrance to the mosque. He claims he merely pulled out fill from an existing Crusader ramp, but Israeli...
...counting on its new 19-ton armored vehicle known as the Stryker. The Pentagon persuaded Congress to spend $8.7 billion on 2,096 Strykers because of their ability to be loaded into the ubiquitous C-130 cargo planes, flown to war zones, then immediately rolled down the planes' back ramp and into combat. To convince doubters, the Army even staged a demonstration at Andrews Air Force Base, in which a Stryker and its 11-troop crew emerged from the belly of a C-130 like toothpaste coming out of a tube...
...charm will soon have a chance. DreamWorks SKG, the studio behind the billion-dollar Shrek franchise, announced that it plans to spin off its animation division in an initial public offering (IPO) to raise at least $650 million. DreamWorks Animation, as the new company will be called, intends to ramp up production with the release of two computer-animated films a year and needs the capital to help finance the movies and tackle archrival Pixar, which keeps raising the bar with hits like Finding Nemo...
...there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that. It's really mining oil, not producing it in a conventional way. Consequently, only about a million barrels a day come out of the tar sands. And it takes several years to ramp up that production...
...cowered with the others as we circled, waiting for our signal to approach. I remember looking back and seeing the Navy coxswain at the controls of our boat standing high above us completely exposed to enemy fire, doing his job as ordered. As our boat touched sand and the ramp went down, I became a visitor to hell. Some boats on either side of us had been hit by artillery and heavy weapons. I was aware that some were burning and some were sinking. I shut everything out and concentrated on following the men in front of me down...