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  • Cuba's landbased wells pump pretty heavy sour stuff.

    Vulnerable GOP Senator Recites Bogus China-Cuba Oil Myth 2009

  • Prior to 1972, U.S. marine waters had been used extensively as a convenient alternative to landbased sites for the disposal of various wastes such as sewage sludge, industrial wastes, and pipeline discharges, and runoff.

    Ocean Dumping Act, United States 2007

  • It would be except that landbased icecaps at elevation are more insenstive to air temperatures than seabased ice to water temperature.

    AGU Fall Meeting « Climate Audit 2006

  • A mole is a landbased creature who can't see anything, because they're inserted up someone's bum.

    Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Thursday 2006

  • "Fate has been most unkind to us, hitting us where it hurts the most and at a time when our landbased third Chimurenga (revolution) is at its most crucial historical juncture," he said, lamenting the deaths of three key party officials.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • As of midnight last night, Washington time, U.S. forces struck 13 targets yesterday, using between five and eight landbased bombers and 10 to 15 strike aircraft; also used about 15 Tomahawk missiles fired from two ships and one submarine.

    CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2001 2001

  • We used about 100 strike aircraft -- that included about 80 technical aircraft from seabased platforms, 12 to 14 landbased tactical jets, and between eight and 10 long-ranged bombers.

    CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2001 2001

  • If we had had to rely on landbased aircraft in Japan, we would have found that we lacked the ability to provide quick-response tactical airpower because of range and endurance problems.

    On Yankee Station Nichols, Tillman 1988

  • He complained: The Soviet landbased missiles are becoming vulnerable to attack.

    On Nuclear War: An Exchange with the Secretary of Defense Draper, Theodore H. 1983

  • Even if they had been able to divine Japanese intentions correctly, there is some doubt as to whether a military disaster could have been avoided; the American fleet was extremely vulnerable to air attack and there were insufficient landbased planes to ward off a Japanese raid.

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

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