Rather, the near-crisis was over the wisdom of Western nations subsidizing construction of a huge, two-strand Soviet gas pipeline that would, when completed, greatly increase the dependency of a number of NATO countries on Moscow's natural gas supplies in the late 1990s and 21st century.
Like Moscow's two-strand Siberian gas pipeline deal in the early 1980's, the Cienfuegos complex is an unprecedented "national project" with potentially decisive implications for the country's long-term energy viability, hard currency earnings structure, attraction of other foreign direct investment, access to international financial institutions and, of course, nationalistic pride.
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Elsewhere in Belfast, the Army defused two pipe bombs in the Short Strand area in the east of the city.
The harder part will be designing a detector that can distinguish between two adjacent letters on a DNA strand, which are half a nanometer apart, a small fraction of the wavelength of light.
The harder part will be designing a detector that can distinguish between two adjacent letters on a DNA strand, which are half a nanometer apart, a small fraction of the wavelength of light (which makes it impossible to see them).
This authoritarian strand of the party was guided by two things: a political philosophy and a style of government.
Shin was nearly through the fence when his lower legs slipped off Park's torso and came into direct contact, through the two pairs of pants he was wearing, with the bottom strand.
By minimizing storage requirements, it lets the GR-HD1 store two and a half times as much picture information on the same strand of MiniDV tape.
Six short films will be broadcast over the next two years by "up and coming talent" as part of a BBC Three strand.
All it takes to strand hundreds of thousands of people is a glitch on one of only two tracks linking Manhattan to New Jersey under the Hudson River.
At first, the Strand-1 satellite will be controlled by a standard onboard computer, but in phase two of the mission, a Google Nexus phone will take the reins - equipped with a number of special apps.
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Up north, Latvia is the Balts' weak strand, its capital, Riga, more tightly tied to Russia than those of the other two Baltic countries.
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