In some countries coast guard duties include icebreaking in inland waterways and the collection and dissemination of meteorological data pertaining to floods, hurricanes, and storms.
Her "extroverts" are, often enough, obnoxious fools: Stanford students stripping naked and running down a San Francisco street as part of a freshman "icebreaking" event; a charismatic self-help guru, raking in the dough as he flashes his too-white teeth and sells the secrets of his success to the constitutionally less exuberant.
Were my grandparents telling tales to an impressionable girl? A. The Hudson used to freeze over with some regularity, and it would even now, but a solid, shore-to-shore ice sheet hasn't been allowed to form since 1936, when the government ordered the Coast Guard to begin icebreaking operations on the Hudson River and the Upper Bay.
The US air force diverted its largest cargo plane from Japan to bring in an 11-tonne amphibious icebreaking tractor from Prudhoe Bay, then came not one, but two Soviet ships, the icebreaker Admiral Makarov and a cargo ship, the Arsenev.
The BoM will get a new "supercomputer" and the government will buy a new icebreaking ship to support Australia's Antarctic research stations.
It makes 12 trips a year.In this section The CFK psychodrama Ice and lolly Flexible friends Peru's Italian job ReprintsThe Umiak I is the world's most powerful icebreaking cargo ship.
The only way to get ore out all year round is with a polar-class icebreaking bulk carrier, the Umiak I.
In a year of near-record-low ice, the Vladimir Tikhonov's more modest icebreaking capability saw it most of the way through the Northern Sea Route with little help.
In the first of his dispatches from the campus of HEC Paris, Brian Gardner, a new part-time MBA student, tackles the school's business simulation and finds the teaching style different to his native America WITH only our matriculation paperwork in hand and a few icebreaking sessions behind us, last week the newest intake of HEC Paris's part-time MBA met for its first day at school.
Icebreaking vessels are used to clear paths for other vessels and occasionally to assist in relieving jams on large rivers.
As an icebreaking exercise, Vernacchio had the participants pronounce a sexual term, in a tone of voice indicated by a word on a card.
