Word: shallowing
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...troops face logistic difficulties as well. Given Somalia's / primitive airports, shallow ports and unpaved roads, troops will have to improvise as they go. "This is a classic bring-your-own operation," says one four-star Army logistician. That means supplying their own night lights at the airport, radar systems for air-traffic control, generators -- and then fuel to run them. Logistics managers are sending three times the normal spare parts, worried that sand could be a constant problem...
...best this is a shallow excuse, implying, as it does, that if one were not pressed for time, one would not be drinking seven cups of coffee at every meal. But as I discovered over Thanksgiving vacation when I drank my usual amount coffee and had to stay up to watch horror movies on cable until 3 a.m., caffeine addiction is really independent of any need to be awake...
...least eight marine reactors, three from the nuclear icebreaker Lenin and the others from decommissioned submarines, have been scuttled in Novaya Zemlya's shallow bays. The dead reactors are encased in layers of steel and may be harmless for many years. But inside, their cores contain dangerous isotopes...
...actors too often seem lost in pro forma direction and overwhelmed by the pit orchestra from hell. There are saving graces--the well designed set and scene-stealing cow are two examples--but John Weinstein's production of Into the Woods, while polished and charming, is basically shallow...
...Reagan years. He pointedly said in his early days as President that he would insist on ethical government, that he would be kinder and gentler, that he would be a "hands on" President. The contrast with laid-back Ronnie and his scandals was never very subtle. The shallow Hollywood glitz, which was useful for regaining the White House from Jimmy Carter, would be replaced by solid Republican virtues now that patrician George was in the Oval Office. The simpleminded rhetoric about an evil empire would yield to more refined management of foreign policy under the former director...