Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...provided facilities for filing stories. On Aug. 14 some Europeans made an early-morning run for Saudi Arabia; Murphy, who was staying across town, could not join them. Two days later, Iraq ordered all American and British citizens to report to hotels and register with Iraqi forces. "I did make a couple of taxi trips after that," she said, "but it was pretty nerve-racking...
...dinosaur bones on steel, which can reduce their scientific value, he aims to put only a bronze cast of his tyrannosaurus outside the museum. The bones will go on display much as his crew found them. The idea is to let ordinary museumgoers see the evidence from which paleontologists make their leaps of reasoning and imagination. They will be able to argue, for instance, over the only tyrannosaurus arm ever found. It is about as long as a human arm -- too short, in Horner's view, to be much use in predation, but far more muscular than previously thought, having...
...Some of the mutual funds that invest in stocks of a particular country, like the New Germany Fund, which immediately shot up to a 70% premium over its intrinsic value when it was launched last year, may make sense now that euphoria has turned to euphearia and premiums have turned to discounts. I bought a little of the Turkish Fund, traded on the New York Stock Exchange, when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, not because I know the first thing about Turkey but because it was trading at a 35% discount and I thought Turkey might somehow benefit from its newly...
...made the following statement: "Before we send thousands of American soldiers to their deaths, let's make damn sure America's vital interests are threatened...
...explanation for the logistics shortfall is simple enough: the armed services are not interested in spending money on programs that do not produce weapons. Promotions go to those officers who command warships and fly warplanes. Says a Navy captain: "You don't make admiral driving freighters." Left to their own devices, Pentagon planners invariably opt for the furthest reaches of technology, seeking machines with almost magical properties. What they usually get are production delays, cost overruns and hardware that never lives up to its advance billing. They are again talking up their pet projects. "The Pentagon sees this crisis...