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By today, senior Pentagon officials seemed to have decided to grind down the Iraqi government rather than shocking it.

The object lay in his studio for several weeks before he decided to grind the bottom.

Andy Newman (NYT) NEW JERSEY LAWRENCEVILLE: POLICE COPTERS GROUNDED The state police decided to ground its three Sikorsky S-76 helicopters pending an investigation by Sikorsky, the manufacturer.

Hoegh Osaka, a car carrier, was stuck for days on a sandbank off Southampton, after its captain and harbour pilot decided to ground the ship when she began listing alarmingly on leaving port.

A17 Alaska Air Grounds 18 Planes Alaska Airlines decided to ground 18 of its MD-80 aircraft, the same model as the plane that crashed off the California coast in January when a part in the tail broke.

The approval was given after a dramatic 24 hours in which Cameron decided to ground all planes because of the UK's concerns that the Russian plane that crashed over Sinai on Saturday could have been brought down by an Islamic State bomb.

The Marines also decided to ground all 165 of its CH-53E Super Stallion transport helicopters, based on an investigation into the Aug. 10 crash of a Navy MH-53E helicopter off Corpus Christi, Tex., in which four people were killed.

By this time, aviation authorities reluctantly decided to ground commercial aircraft.

India's Ministry of Civil Aviation has decided to ground Boeing 737 Max planes.

She then grew curious about the specific brain problems that cause those deficits and decided to ground herself in cognitive neuroscience.

However, it added that after consultation with the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board it had decided to ground the flights "out of an abundance of caution and in order to reassure the flying public of the aircraft's safety".