Word: shipments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million tons. So far, 550,000 tons have been promised by aid groups, or 42% of what will be needed. Michael Priestley, the U.N. official who coordinates the overall relief program in Ethiopia, stresses that more aid must be committed immediately. "It will take five months for a food shipment to get here if it ) is pledged this week," he said. "If we don't get the pledges now, there will be a break in the pipeline...
ATTENTION BUYERS! Brand-new shipment just in. Unusual opportunity. Our best consignment ever. $20 million worth of choice Florida properties: sun-coast condos, apartment complexes and, the jewel of the lot, a one-of-a-kind Thoroughbred- and show-horse ranch with 14 rare Paso Finos, prized for their steady ride and high-stepping gait. All offerings are in good shape, previously owned by suspected drug kingpins. (They buy the best.) A steal. Remember our motto at Uncle Sam's: We seize from the sleaze. Their loss is America's gain...
...producing an extremely light and durable fiber, carbon-carbon, used to improve the accuracy of intercontinental ballistic missiles. When the U.S. learned of the case, officials rushed to halt the deal. Though most of the order had already been filled, U.S. authorities prevailed on the British government to stop shipment of the vital heating elements that the Soviets would need to operate at least some of the equipment properly. When informed of the fiasco, the Thatcher government ordered the heating elements destroyed...
...these apparently eclectic tastes in reading do not belong to Lum, the library system's East Asian expert. Pointing to shelves which contain a couple hundred uncatalogued books, he explains that a new shipment of Indian books came in from Washington this Tuesday...
...When push came to shove," and CQ refused tofill the text orders this fall, the Coop finallyagreed to pay the bill and CQ sent them the order,Rozakis said. Although the course assistant saidCoop employees told him the shipment had arrived,the books had not reached the shelves as ofclosing time yesterday...