Halliburton's in Dubai now, and with Blackwater, Triple Canopy, and Dyncorp providing the muscle, Bush and Cheney have accomplished the dream of Ronald Reagan's CIA Director William Casey: To build an "off the shelf, stand alone, independent" entity to run American foreign policy free from the constraints of the Congress and the American people.
Lining MacLeod's shelf stood a cast of characters from the comic-book universe Optimus Prime, Venom, the Hulk, and Brute, along with a Batmobile, all colorless.
On a living room shelf stands a lineup of bobble-headed Yankees of various eras -- Paul O'Neill, Joe Torre, Jason Giambi and Bernie Williams, plus a vintage Phil Rizzuto -- courtesy of Mr. Steier's father, a newspaper sports copy editor who was a friend of Bob Sheppard, the longtime Yankees announcer.
The store doors were locked as usual this morning, but a box of macaroni, which had been placed upon a top shelf, stood on the floor in the middle of the room, with a handful of long straws lying across the top in the form of a cross.
There is the Mod1 ($798) which has 5 single orbs on shelf stands, enough for your basic surround setup.
Ten miles of traffic-congested roads away, in a huge warehouse, dozens of shelves stand stacked with a wide variety of products - from electronics to kitchen utensils.
"All the walls of that small room were shelves under the shelves stood barrels and boxes.
Inside, tall shelves stood along the walls, shorter racks down the center.
On the empty shelves stood cigarette packets shaped into origami animals and sold on for the same price as a fresh pack.
Affidavits filed with the suit said the Contra involvement was simply the latest venture of what Sheehan called an "off-the-shelf, stand-alone, self-financing" operation dating from the botched Bay of Pigs invasion and the Vietnam War.
Adult wild-type (strain 5D) zebrafish were raised and maintained on a 14-hr:10-hr light:dark cycle within a five-shelf stand-alone recirculating system (Aquatic Habitats, Apopka, FL) containing photoperiod enclosures and conditioned reverse osmosis water (~ 27 28°C).
