1.   And many coastal cities are unilaterally dropping their cargo handling rates, justifying the decision because of the employment and related economic activity the business generates.

2.   Mexican drivers drop their cargo off on their side of the international border.

3.   Ships from Asia simply steamed west across the Pacific to Los Angeles, dropped off cargo and distributed it through the states on trucks or railroad cars.

4.   Surgical masks are stuffed in pants and shirt pockets, ready in case an ash cloud drops its cargo.

5.   The companies say that with the new systems, military or aid groups will be able to drop cargo where it is intended to go.

6.   The international monitors had no means of checking whether they ever arrived, or whether, as many American officials suspect, they dropped their cargo in Bosnia.

7.   Using the system, operators can drop the cargo at night, from higher altitudes and at greater horizontal distances from the target.

8.   Border guards returned fire, making the infiltrators drop their cargo and flee.

9.   Smugglers fly through the jungle, refueling and dropping cargo at dozens of secret airstrips.

10.   It was not clear whether the planes dropped any cargo onto the airfield.