Word: wiring
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...tell them where the rest of the crew were," recounts the chemical tanker's captain at the time, Surahmat Johar. "I was sleeping in my cabin. All of us were then gathered in one room. They tied our hands tight behind our backs with a white, plastic wire?the kind that tightens even harder if you try to loosen it." Concerned that the 3,900-ton vessel would have no one at the helm, Surahmat pleaded to be allowed onto the bridge. "But they told me to shut up, saying, 'Don't worry, our commander is fully capable of taking...
...ownership issues" at Reliance had been settled by Dhirubhai before his death. The next day, M.L. Bhakta, a director at Reliance Industries for 27 years, resigned. Bhakta said he was getting old and his resignation had nothing to do with the controversy. But he acknowledged to a news wire that there was a "misunderstanding" between the brothers "and we are working to clear it." On Nov. 25, six directors at Reliance Energy, a company headed by Anil Ambani, resigned without offering a reason. Shares of Reliance Energy fell 5.8% on Nov. 25 while Reliance Industries stock dipped 2.2%. Word that...
...WIRE-FREE WIRELESS...
...trademark African robe and sunglasses, fist in the air, a defiant look on his face, as if to say to the roomful of businessmen, I still run things around here. But the businessmen don't seem to notice. Instead they are transfixed by a tall young man with wire-rimmed spectacles and a fashionably shaved head. When he talks about a new economic strategy for Libya, including private enterprise, job creation and international financial institutions, the audience hangs on his words. After decades of centralized state control, he says, "we have a new reality in Libya...
Despite all the intel showing heavy movement within the buildings, Object Lion was not defended. But in the street behind it, a mammoth propane tank lay on its side; wire ran from it to a nearby house. A squad was detailed, and went in only to come scurrying straight back out. The presence of gas cans and a car battery suggested that the propane tank and probably the house were rigged to blow...