Word: arms
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Obama will have a hard time complaining about that now, though, having been established in the narrative as the media's darling, even as the press fixates on the new, fascinating celeb who keeps it at arm's length--waiting, wanting and wondering...
...electric slide commenced, Matory’s arm could be seen rising buoyantly from a sea of coordinated bodies...
...push to help re-arm Iraq - helicopter gunships are already in the pipeline, and Baghdad is looking to buy 400 armored personnel carriers and six C-130 cargo planes - suggests an Iraqi government eager to fight its own battles without U.S. help. "Given Iraq's history and its location, it's going to create regular forces that are capable of not simply dealing with an insurgency but defending the country," says Anthony Cordesman, a military scholar with the Center for Strategic and Independent Studies. "And when a country is looking for prestige - a symbol of coming back as a fully...
...People's Army, Communist insurgents who have fought a long-running guerrilla campaign against the government parallel to the MILF's. By staging attacks in Mindanao, Acharya says, the NPA may be trying to force the government to fight a two-front insurgency. "This particular group is the criminal arm of the NPA," Acharya speculates. "They want to distract from operations against the MILF...
...seems that the only remaining piece in the consolidation of the German commercial banking sector is Deutsche Postbank, the former banking arm of the government post and telecommunications monopoly. Its owner, Deutsche Post, itself still controlled by a large government shareholding, wants to sell. Until now, a sale to Commerzbank was considered prudent, but the newly enlarged bank is unlikely to be interested, analysts...