Word: transferable
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...billion -- the U.S. share has skyrocketed. Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in late 1989, U.S. overseas weapons sales have totaled $82.4 billion, far ahead of the $66.8 billion in sales racked up by the rest of the world's nations combined. U.S. arms-transfer agreements in 1993 totaled $22.3 billion, eclipsing second-place Russia's $2.8 billion and Britain's $2.3 billion third-place finish. The Pentagon sponsored weapons sales to 86 nations; furthermore, Washington approved the shipment of $2.2 billion in free weapons and military supplies to some 50 countries and sanctioned commercial arms deals with...
...reason it has become so popular is it is the first easy to use program for finding info on the Internet," Tarr says. "All the Web really is is a pretty-looking ftp front end program." The term "ftp," which stands for file transfer protocol, is a way to access and download information that is available on the Internet. The front end program provides the graphic interface...
This characteristic is made possible by a component of Web protocol known as the Uniform Resource Locator, or URL. This is a special address that identifies where objects on the Web are retrievable. Commonly, these addresses begin with "http," which stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. This indicates that the object to be retrieved involves Web-standard hypertext...
...Judge Garsh expressed her support for that move," Cafasso said, adding that the move to transfer the case might be made jointly by both sides...
...United States today announced completion of a secret deal with Kazakhstan -- a one-time Soviet republic -- to transfer more than 1,000 pounds ofbomb-grade uraniumout of the Central Asian country and into a U.S. energy plant in Tennessee -- a move that U.S. officials said was reassuring amid a burgeoning black market for U.S.S.R. nuclear materials. "One more threat of nuclear terrorism and proliferation has been removed from the world," President Clinton said. Defense Secretary William Perry, who announced the deal, said the cache constituted enough to make about two dozen nuclear warheads. More than 30 U.S. engineers who flew...