Word: refuel
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...even greater significance are the city's two air strips, which once they're repaired could make a huge difference to the U.S. military campaign - right now planes have to fly from the Arabian sea across Pakistan, often having to refuel before they reach their targets. But flying from Mazar would put U.S. warplanes ten minutes away from their targets. Also, it would open the gates for massive food aid distribution, which is desperately needed on the plain to the south of the city where hundreds of thousands of people had depended on food aid even before the fighting began...
...Sept. 11 hijackings pointed up serious lapses in air safety, and it turns out that roads are no less vulnerable. The trucking industry loses as much as $12 billion a year in cargo thefts, which often occur when gun-wielding crooks surprise drivers as they nap or refuel. The robbers typically sell the cargo, if they can, and sometimes unload the big engines as well...
...Sept. 11 hijackings pointed up serious lapses in air safety, and it turns out that roads are no less vulnerable. The trucking industry loses as much as $12 billion a year in cargo thefts, which often occur when gun-wielding crooks surprise drivers as they nap or refuel. The robbers typically sell the cargo, if they can, and sometimes unload the big engines as well...
...strolled into the Oval Office, Bush was concentrating on the logistics of getting the crew home. The difficult diplomacy of selling the Chinese on an artfully limited U.S. apology was, thankfully, behind him. He could begin chewing over simpler problems. How long would it take to refuel the pickup plane in China? What would be the flight path? How long would the plane be on the ground? "He was very aware that we had to be careful in what we said while the crew was still on the ground," says senior aide Dan Bartlett...
...strolled into the Oval Office, Bush was concentrating on the logistics of getting the crew home. The difficult diplomacy of selling the Chinese on an artfully limited U.S. apology was, thankfully, behind him. He could begin chewing over simpler problems. How long would it take to refuel the pickup plane in China? What would be the flight path? How long would the plane be on the ground? "He was very aware that we had to be careful in what we said while the crew was still on the ground," says senior aide Dan Bartlett...