Word: units
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attempt to provide added mobility to its squads, the Cambridge Police Department unveiled a new bicycle unit yesterday...
...bike unit's inaugural day on the jobprovided evidence for its utility...
...such trader is Leonid, a lanky, unshaven roughneck who formerly belonged to an elite unit of the Soviet army. After leaving the military in the late 1980s, Leonid spent several years repairing apartments and fixing toilets, until he started brokering Russian-made wine in front of the Kiev railway station. When he was pushed out by a group of gypsies who controlled the wine trade, Leonid turned to imported cigarettes. Since then, he has branched out; one week he may move a consignment of flashlight batteries, the next a shipment of government-issue boots, obtained from a corrupt policeman...
Richard E. Joltes, managers of hardware and facilities for FAS computer services, said that the unit, which Harvard bought used, cost $3,000, and that the installation and future software will cost over...
...central character, Kien, Ninh put his thoughts and experiences on paper long after the war's end. Though the author says his tale "is pure fiction," there are other similarities. Both writer and character are decorated soldiers in the NVA's 27th Youth Brigade. Each is among the unit's 500 conscripts who enter the war in the bloody Central Highlands -- and one of only nine survivors by the time the unit becomes the first to march into Saigon in 1975. After he was demobilized in 1976, Ninh tried university for a while and then quit to live as Kien...