Word: wheelings
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...judge when intervention is justified. One often heard suggestion is that intervention is defensible whenever a civil war threatens to send floods of refugees across international frontiers. Established powers also need to work out in advance how to organize and finance an intervention force, rather than repeatedly reinventing the wheel. NATO foreign ministers, meeting in Norway last month, approved for the first time the formation of a force that could be used outside the territory of the alliance states, and U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has called for the creation of a standing U.N. force...
...under $150, most of the Rollerblade boots are superior, but on the high end [it's] pretty close," Brine says, citing Roces' and Ultrawhells' use of a more durable wheel...
...school he began to figure how he would convert to no-till farming field by field. He did not have enough money to phase in the new methods so he went cold turkey, sold his seven-bottom plow and the larger of his two tractors, a 225-h.p. four-wheel-drive John Deere. He used to make eight trips each season across his fields to plow, disk (two or three times), plant, cultivate, spray and harvest. Now he makes four trips -- to plant, spray (twice) and harvest -- saving more than $25 an acre. He soon found that his yields went...
International TV programming is the great terra incognita for American viewers. The occasional British mini-series or Australian soap opera makes its way to these shores, via PBS or cable, and news sometimes filters back about the latest hit on Japanese TV or those funny foreign versions of Wheel of Fortune. But for most of the U.S. audience, TV in the non-English-speaking world remains trapped in the twilight zone...
...temporary relief of mild allergies, doctors usually prescribe antihistamines, drugs that block the action of histamine, which is responsible for allergic symptoms. The antihistamine drugs in use for decades reduced swelling and other symptoms but led to drowsiness, an inconvenience in the office and a clear danger behind the wheel. But a newer antihistamine, terfenadine (trade name: Seldane), does not induce the need to nod. Other drugs helpful to allergy sufferers are cromolyn sodium, which in nasal-spray and eye-drop forms suppresses the release of histamine, and beclomethasone, triamcinolone and flunisolide, cortisone-based preparations that some doctors find...