Hints and tips:
...(In the interest of accuracy we are reckoning in the same feet used by American charts and the Corps of Engineers.) The Chief’s Report was only a recommendation....
...M-O-U-R-N . . . Tim Hayward Half mourning. M-O-U-R-N-I-N-G....
...When the Iran-Contra story finally broke late in 1986, Powell had been in Germany for less than six months, now with three stars and in command of the 75,000 strong V corps, having skipped the normal intermediary...
...But effects on U.K. only marginally positive — and the fiscal expansion may not happen....
...American feminists of the 19th century....
...For instance, the Czech man of letters Karel Capek, in his 1921 play R.U.R., coined the word “robot” to describe the kind of autonomous thinking machine that won the American quiz show Jeopardy this February...
...Having just written the Army/ Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, General David Petraeus was sent to Iraq, along with five additional brigades of troops....
...I have not been stalking the slightly doughy man sitting opposite me in a blue V-neck sweater and open-collared white shirt....
...Now, these examples of progress can be replicated in the lives of the billion people at the bottom of the world’s economic ladder....
...Mitchell, who had a degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M, worked for oil group Amoco for a year and a half before serving in the US Army Corps of Engineers....
...Nor was there any surprise about New Orleans’ vulnerability, and has not been since the US Army Corps of Engineers started in the 19th century building sluices to carry the Mississippi past the sunken city...
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