Word: armadas
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...risk of air and sea travel rises. Not all of them are as lucky as Wehbe, who knows he will spend each night in a comfortable hotel room paid for by his parents. Over the weekend, thousands waited in dazed and nervous clumps just inside Syria, beside the armada of taxis that had carried them over the border. Children slumbered in the backs of cars; groups of head-scarved women sat in silent groups under makeshift tent shelters, waiting for meals of donated pita and canned meat...
That sounds like a pretty obvious strategy. But it's hard to pull off in reality. It requires that the local police departments develop good sources of intelligence and then, the greatest challenge of all, share that intelligence with one another and with the armada of federal agents in the city--from the FBI to the U.S. Attorney's office to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Then they have to build professional, solid cases that will hold up in court. Finally, they must avoid handing the cases to certain local...
...SANK HIS BATTLESHIP Spain's Philip II didn't impress England's Elizabeth I, who said she couldn't "fear a man who took 10 years a-learning of his alphabet." Her ships humiliated his armada...
...crisp Saturday night in early winter, an armada of Hyundais and Saturns arrived at the colonnaded Bridgehampton Community House in the center of the Hamptons, a thin necklace of ultra-wealthy hamlets at the tip of New York's Long Island...
...viewers. Could the nets end up making their brands irrelevant? McPherson doubts it. "Whenever you're looking at airing your content in new places, you have to first consider the mother ship, which is the network," he says. Yes, but a mother ship can be part of a vast armada whose collective parts are just as important. You can see the point illustrated on Sci Fi network's Battlestar Galactica. Did you miss the show? You'll soon be able to order it on DirecTV...