Word: powering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...contingency plans call for heavy use of air power against Iraqi targets. At some point, however, ground forces would surely be needed to drive Saddam's army out of Kuwait. The U.S. would mount this attack as a lightning strike at night -- a style of warfare the Arab allies are not equipped or trained for. In that moment, American planners in Washington say, they hope the Islamic units can move aside and leave the way clear for a U.S. dash forward...
...Conservation Task Force. Seventeen fuel-guzzling old Series 10 DC-9s and 727-100s have been grounded. Airplanes will taxi out to the runway on one engine instead of two. Airliners parked at the gates will be heated and cooled by ground-based units instead of onboard auxiliary-power systems. Someone even figured out that by removing all those little armrest ashtrays -- since passengers can no longer smoke on domestic trips -- Continental can reduce aircraft weight by 50 lbs. a flight. While that is a minuscule portion of a 737's unloaded weight...
While the Constitution gives Congress the exclusive right to declare war, events have a way of handing that power to Presidents. Relying on a decision of the U.N., Harry Truman committed troops to Korea without specific authorization from Congress. Lyndon Johnson launched his escalation of the Vietnam War from the shaky platform of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, the nearest thing to congressional approval he could point to -- or needed...
During 10 years in power, Nicaragua's Sandinista National Liberation Front confiscated millions of dollars worth of privately owned factories, farms and houses for the state. Since their electoral defeat last February, however, some Sandinistas have decided to make money the old-fashioned way: by earning...
...council after 20 Arabs were killed by Israeli forces on Jerusalem's Temple Mount last month, Perez de Cuellar suggested the 164 nations that signed the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention convene to discuss ways to prevent human-rights violations in the territories, including the designation of a "protecting power" for the Palestinians...