Word: use
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Cusack said that the transition to the new purification system would use up less chlorine and allow the city to store an "adequate stockpile" of the chemical indoors. He said the conversion should take six months to implement...
...fighting starts, the biggest problem of all will be command and control, forging the various forces into a cohesive military whole. The Islamic troops are officially under the command of the Saudi chief of staff, General Khalid bin Sultan. But the Saudis use American weapons and tactics, while the Syrians operate like the Soviet army. Even talking to one another is difficult. The Saudis and Moroccans speak different Arabic dialects, while the Arabs have to use English to communicate with the Pakistanis and Bangladeshis...
...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...
When that failed to stem the panic, the frustrated police decided to enforce a curfew along the road that passes in front of the presidential offices, thus protecting Nigeria's most prominent men from any magician, including one tempted to use the commotion to launch a coup...
...police tried to use the newspapers to restore calm, explaining that the rumors were only the street thieves' ruse for stealing. They even took some of the purported victims to hospitals to prove to them that everything between their legs had been preserved intact...