Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown said that only $6 million was being spent on the buildings so that the additional $3 million Hillel hopes to raise will be allotted for maintenance and endowing a permanent staff so the building "will not be an empty shell...
...carried out without hindrance. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali promptly rebuked her and ordered shipments resumed, remarking, "I am supposed to direct this operation." At week's end a 10-truck convoy had been waved through by Serbs, but still could not get to besieged Gorazde over shell- cratered roads. Then Bosnian Serbs and Izetbegovic found separate, and rather fanciful, reasons to boycott a new round of peace negotiations that were supposed to begin Friday at U.N. headquarters in New York City, though U.N. officials nursed hopes they will show up this week. For relief from daily bloodshed, meanwhile...
...Some of us have dreamed about this since we were five years old," said a shell-shocked Drury after the game. "But this is just the first step of one of our goals...
...wounding three others. In the chaos of shattered glass, screams and blood, he returned to his car and drove away. Was it a calculated hit or the demented act of a lonely psychopath? Police took all the usual steps: examining fingerprints on one victim's car, retrieving a spent shell casing, checking local gun shops for recent purchases of semiautomatic weapons and stopping commuters along Dolley Madison Boulevard in hopes of finding further witnesses. At week's end the killer and his motive remained a mystery despite the best efforts of federal and local investigators and support personnel...
British Transport Secretary John MacGregor called the prevalence of substandard vessels an "international disgrace" -- a statement corroborated, oddly enough, by the oil industry. A report by Shell Petroleum indicated that 20% of the world's oil fleet was suitable only for "the scrapyard." At the moment, the world's seaways are becoming scrap-yards. Even as politicians debated what to do, the Maersk Navigator, a Danish supertanker that collided with a ship near Sumatra two weeks ago, was still burning -- and still spewing...