Vacuum-formed components can be used in place of complex fabricated sheet metal, fiberglass, or plastic injection molding.

Suppose, he says, that the tables were turned, and we were in the Soviets' position: `` There would be more than 2,000 modern Soviet fighters, all better than ours, stationed at 250 bases in Mexico and the Caribbean.

His best years were 1954 when he hit with 41 homers and '55 when he belted 51 home runs, drove in 127 and stole 24 bases.

Both of those have had dynamic run-ups in price on the market in recent months, both were selling at higher price-earnings and yield bases than Morton was coming to market at, and everyone who knew anything about it expected the Morton stock to have a fast run-up.

These bases were prepared in advance, often by capturing an estate and augmenting its defences with surrounding ditches, ramparts and palisades.

He was a man with fair skin, thin, emaciated, with a sparse beard, a slightly hunched frame, sunken eyes and protruding forehead, and the bases of his fingers were hairless.

About 28 of the former US military bases in Vietnam where the herbicides were stored and loaded onto airplanes may still have high level of dioxins in the soil, posing a health threat to the surrounding communities.

This broad use of the term is likely to have come about because alkalis were the first bases known to obey the Arrhenius definition of a base and are still among the more common bases.

For a time in the 19th century, stolen bases were credited when a baserunner reached an extra base on a base hit from another player.

As a consequence, home runs were rare, and the " inside game " dominated — singles, bunts, stolen bases, the hit-and-run play, and other tactics dominated the strategies of the time.

Thus, if the score was 3 – 2 with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, and the batter smacked an " over the fence home run ", the game would end at 4 – 3, with the batter only allowed a double, and the runners officially stopped on 2nd and 3rd ( since they were not needed to win the game ).

During the Napoleonic wars the Kingdom of the Netherlands adopted the French code civil in 1809, however the Dutch colonies in the Cape of Good Hope and Sri Lanka, at the time called Ceylon, were seized by the British to prevent them being used as bases by the French Navy.

By the mid-1960s, parts of Cambodia's eastern provinces were serving as bases for North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong ( NVA / VC ) forces operating against South Vietnam, and the port of Sihanoukville was being used to supply them.

The military also suffered several setbacks in its fight against the guerrillas, when several of its rural bases began to be overrun and a record number of soldiers and officers were taken prisoner by the FARC ( which since 1982 was attempting to implement a more " conventional " style of warfare, seeking to eventually defeat the military in the field ).

In the 1880s, Wilhelm Ostwald at Leipzig University started a systematic investigation into reactions that were catalyzed by the presence of acids and bases, and found that chemical reactions occur at finite rates and that these rates can be used to determine the strengths of acids and bases.

After several Colorado at-bats, the bases were loaded and Ryan Spilborghs stepped up to the plate.

When timber was available, many were surrounded by a circle of wooden piles with axe-sharpened bases that were driven into the bottom, forming a circular enclosure that helped to retain the main mound and prevent erosion.

Until police determined this was an isolated incident unrelated to the presence of the national guard, military bases statewide were put on high alert and government buildings were briefly placed under lock-down conditions.

The Army, twice as large as the other services combined with about 24, 000 active duty personnel, consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, an air cavalry squadron and a combat service support brigade ; the Air Force operates two main bases, one in southern region near Santo Domingo and one in the northern region of the country, the air force operates approximately 40 aircraft including helicopters ; and the Navy maintains three aging vessels which were donated from the United States, around 25 patrol crafts and interceptor boats and two helicopters.

Public awareness campaigns were one of the ways in which dot-coms sought to expand their customer bases.

Expenditures by type of out-of-home dining were as follows: 40 % in full-service restaurants, 37. 2 % in limited service restaurants ( fast food ), 6. 6 % in schools or colleges, 5. 4 % in bars and vending machines, 4. 7 % in hotels and motels, 4. 0 % in recreational places, and 2. 2 % in others, which includes military bases.

The commercially available reverse transcriptases produced by Promega are quoted by their manuals as having error rates in the range of 1 in 17, 000 bases for AMV and 1 in 30, 000 bases for M-MLV

Rather, SNMP uses an extensible design, where the available information is defined by management information bases ( MIBs ).

Alternative measurement bases to the historical cost measurement basis, which may be applied for some types of assets for which market values are readily available, require that the carrying value of an asset ( or liability ) be updated to the market price ( mark-to-market valuation ) or some other estimate of value that better approximates the real value.

A ring of defense bases around New York, for example, cuts down the amount possibly available around San Francisco.

Some USO bases provided a haven for spending a quiet moment alone or writing a letter home, while others offered spiritual guidance and made childcare available for military wives.

As part of Yosemite National Park, the bases of the big walls are just a short walk from good roads, camping is available, hiking trails make the descents easy, and of course the scenery is world-class.

Moreover, the Germans had bases along the length of Norway, which meant, until escort carriers became available, Allied convoys had to be sailed through these areas without adequate defense against aircraft and submarine attack.

The RFA firstly became heavily relied on by the Royal Navy during World War II, when the British fleet was often far from available bases, either due to the enemy capturing such bases, or, in the Pacific, because of the sheer distances involved.

They were the only fighter aircraft available with the range to cover the entire Korean peninsula from bases in Japan.

In the industrial era cast iron bases became available.

When concrete became widely available, there was a trend to make steel reinforced anvil bases by some smiths, though this practice has largely been abandoned.

* Mobile offshore base, a concept for supporting military operations where conventional land bases are not available

The gap again became the focus of naval planning in the 1950s, as it would be the only available outlet into the ocean for Soviet submarines operating from their bases on the Kola Peninsula.

Vietnam made its naval and air bases, as well as some 100, 000 guest workers, available to the Soviets.

Statistics such as stolen bases, runs batted in, and batting average, typically used to gauge players, are relics of a 19th century view of the game and the statistics that were available at the time.

When the funds are available, Commanders can build new bases by purchasing a constructor drone.

Once bases around Foggia in Italy became available, the 15th was able to reach targets in southern France, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Balkans, some of which were difficult to reach from England.

For use as bases, butyllithiums are often used and are commercially available.

A common use of simple commercially available organolithium compounds ( like n-BuLi, sec-BuLi, t-BuLi, MeLi, PhLi ) is as very strong bases.

This is one of three Nottinghamshire adventure bases, with the other two at Holme Pierrepont ( Lakeside ) and Worksop ( Sandhill ), all of which are available for people aged 11 – 19.

At the start of the battle, South East Asia Command had 76 transport aircraft ( mainly C-47 Skytrain ) available, but many others were dedicated to supplying the Nationalist Chinese under Chiang Kai-Shek, or to establishing USAAF bomber bases in China, via " the hump ".

The need to build these came from two areas: the need to house such delicate plants, also the image status from the wealthy, both however were constricted in their choice of materials available for the task, if they were south facing then they were constructed with brick or stone bases, brick or stone pillars with a corbelled gutter arrangement and mainly had large tall windows to benefit from the warm sunlight in the afternoons, if north facing then very heavy on the solid walls and much smaller windows to be able to keep the rooms warm.