Word: 30th
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...telling Iraqis, If you expect that on the 30th of June, midnight, 135,000 American soldiers are going to evaporate out of some Aladdin's lamp out of Iraq, then that is not going to happen. And what I am also saying every day is, You need to sit down now as a sovereign government to see what the American soldiers are going to do, what they are allowed to do, what they are not allowed to do, and how they are going to be phased out of your country...
...even smaller meteorites - each of which can destroy the gunship. To complicate matters, a foreign element in the form of a rival space gunship periodically charges across the screen firing at your own. That's very much like the situation in Iraq as the U.S. hurtles toward the June 30th handover: Taking care of one big problem seems only to present you with more, tougher smaller problems, and every now and then some outside force comes through taking potshots...
Even as America reels from the aftershocks of the detainee abuse scandal the nature of a post-occupation Iraq is taking shape. With less than seven weeks to go before the June 30th handoff, its becoming clear that at least some of the insurgents will have a significant role in the new Iraq. First at Fallujah, and now at negotiations with followers Moqtada Sadr in Najaf, U.S. officials appear to have recognized that it may be difficult to prevail militarily against the insurgents without inflicting casualties and damage that would turn the civilian population even more decisively against the occupation...
...Microsoft began its 30th year last month, investors wondered whether it's a little long in the tooth. "It's clear that Microsoft doesn't see itself as a high-growth company anymore," says Matt Rosoff, a financial analyst with Directions on Microsoft, based in Kirkland, Wash. "The boom days are over." Last year Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer started giving employees stock grants instead of stock options--a sure sign that the share price is flatlining. Ballmer okayed a minuscule dividend for shareholders, but he has resisted calls to let them dip any further into the $56 billion cookie...
Competition for the 1973 Ivy Oration and Class Oration, to be given at Class Day exercises (the day before commencement), will be held by audition Monday, April 30th. (The Ivy Oration is a five to seven minute humorous, prepared or extemporaneous, speech dealing with anything and everything and is intended to evoke laughter through any means. The Class Oration is a five to seven minute serious speech centering around a topic of the speaker's choice...