Word: shells
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Nonetheless, recovery has begun. Aside from the gradual revival of commercial life, an extraordinary transformation has taken place in the shattered western section. Every day dozens of bulldozers clear away rubble, and convoys of trucks cart off debris. Shell craters have been filled, sidewalks repaired. The result: West Beirut is cleaner than at any time since the beginning of the civil war in 1975. The Corniche Mazraa, site of some of the war's heaviest shelling and once littered with broken masonry, is well groomed, and the four-lane high way to the airport has been repaved...
Engineering students at the university constructed the aluminum frame and mechanical components, while art students in an industrial design program designed the aerodynamic plastic shell that covers the vehicle...
...care to shell out on deposits that perhaps may be as small as $2,500. Said Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston: "I think it's terrific." Dreyfus, which manages the third largest money fund with assets of $12 billion, reacted swiftly. Just days earlier, it had announced plans to buy the tiny Lincoln State Bank of East Orange, N.J. By making application to the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency for permission to start its own bank as well, Dreyfus sent a signal that it was determined to get into banking one way or another. Investors in the Dreyfus Liquid Assets...
Axinn's language tricks--In Which The Poet Uses Words In More Ways Than One. Trying To Milk More Meaning--only succeed in making the poetry more ambiguous. In a poem called "Indian Shell Ring Loop Trail,"--a title distinguished simply by containing many unrelated nouns--the poet writes...
Administration officials had little time to rejoice over that small victory before they received more bad news from Beirut. A 155-mm "cluster" shell, of the type supplied by the U.S. to Israel, exploded on the airport tarmac, killing one Marine and wounding three others. The shell was apparently left over from the heavy fighting last summer between Israeli troops and guerrillas of the P.L.O. The dead man, Corporal David L. Reagan, 21, of Chesapeake, Va., was a combat engineer assigned to clear the airport of land mines and other explosives...