Word: approach
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...main thrust of the wargame effort is to build on a "whole government" approach which looks for solutions to crises by calling upon a host of government agencies including the U.S. State Department, Special Operations forces (which combines units from all the servies), the intelligence community and key U.S. allies around the world. In fact, military officers from a host of countries Australia, Germany, and the U.K. attended the wargames as well. (Read a story about Russia's arms build...
...wargamers are made up former generals, U.S. State Department officials, air force officers, members of the intelligence community, including regional and subject matter experts trained to help provide a commander with the information needed to craft a "campaign design" or approach to a crisis. They were divided into teams of Red (enemy) and Blue (U.S. coalition forces), each with a team leader, to build their actions in the crisis...
...former university that included a nasty historical citation about the prophet Mohammed and provocatively asked if Islam lacks reason, making it inherently prone to violence. The worldwide protests among Muslims, including a handful of church burnings and the killing of a nun, forced the Pope to quickly change his approach, and soften his tone...
...what is your approach to teaching your kids about sex? Sarah Palin has pretty much proved that you can wish for abstinence all you want, but kids are still going to be boning each other in the backseat of the car. So I feel like I have prepare them for it; I have to teach them how to be responsible and respectful, and also prepare them for the idea that it's a wonderful thing, if done in the right way. So that's why I put condoms in the bathroom...
...influence on the study of international trade began with his graduate thesis at the University of Michigan. In that paper, he built a conceptual framework for international trade that focused on decisions of individual firms and their entrance into the market. Melitz’s firm-level approach to international trade has provided a way to predict aggregate trade flows, which Antràs said “have been confirmed in the data and were highly non-intuitive given the frame of models that we used to work with.” That approach...