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...planners are trying to make that transition easier. They are betting that a ferocious opening volley--what they call a shock-and-awe campaign--would destroy Iraq's will to resist and quickly end Saddam's rule with little destruction to the country's infrastructure. Some officers have even grumbled that the war plan places too many transportation and power grids off limits as a sop to postwar needs. But if hostilities drag on, rebuilding Iraq could prove as costly and complicated as the four-year reconstruction of Hitler's Germany...
...stimuli may trigger an emotion in one social context but not in another, he said. And some emotions, such as compassion and awe, can only exist in a social framework...
...visible on news kiosks across the country. The Chinese magazine Business World featured his plans to become a mobile-phone magnate. A new book, The Holley Breakthrough, celebrates his firm, best known for selling electricity meters, as "the model of the Made-in-China era." But the greatest awe is for Wang's acquisition of foreign companies, especially public ones, a strategy with great symbolic value in an era in which China wants to assert itself as a global investor, not just an exporter...
Hall’s bout at No. 1 against Yale freshman Michell Quibell proved to be the deciding match last night, and both teams gathered to watch the crucial battle, punctuating awe-filled silence with raucous cheering at the end of every point...
Pearl laughs off any awe at his ability to undertake such a labor-intensive project in the face of the rigors of law school...