Word: objects
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...respectfully object to the broad-brush stereotyping of our diverse ideas and viewpoints as "very conservative," particularly given the discriminatory values attached by Dean Avery to that label...
...gearing up for their gulf mission. They spent the first few months fixing ailing systems and upgrading others. Then they moved on to training exercises, preparing the ship's departments--combat systems, navigation, engineering, operations--to work under battle conditions. In one exercise, McGrath trains her binoculars on an object in the distance. As a nondescript oil tanker comes into view, a dozen sailors cram into a small boat that's lowered over the Jarrett's port side. Armed and nervous, they're preparing to climb aboard the tanker (actually a Navy supply ship) to ensure it is not smuggling...
...skeptics have been won over. There are still those who object on principle to women commanders. "These are not female jobs," insists Dudley Carlson, a retired three-star admiral who once ran the Navy's entire personnel system. "You can make anything work in peacetime, but the peacetime Navy becomes the wartime Navy in the blink...
Distance was no object for Pforzheimer House residents who migrated in hordes to Annenberg from their home abroad to welcome their future neighbors...
...four digit object codes [that designate the kind of purchase being made] are extremely specific," she says. "Finding the correct one can be a challenge in itself...