Word: backyarders
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...catastrophic attack, that management will allow quick action, but the Administration is concerned about assigning any standing military force to missions now handled by police and other law-enforcement and emergency agencies. Governors argue that they know better than the momentarily garrisoned how to patrol their own backyard and protect their neighbors. Soldiers should be used only as "the last resort," Ridge says. Some of his "Governor friends"--Ridge is the former Pennsylvania Governor--are grumbling that their constituents are more comfortable with the police they've grown up with, and that officials who answer to the Pentagon...
...spectacle to see members of the House of Representatives running for cover at the first hint of a problem in their own backyard. Their actions were deplorable, and they not only let down those who look to them for leadership; they also gave a victory to our enemies. Shame on them all. BONNIE SCHWEID Omaha...
...that this could happen, since I came from such a large family and just figured that I would have a lot of kids," she says. She reacted by becoming overprotective of Michael Jr., now 13. When he was two years old, the Raabs had a fence put in their backyard. Afraid Michael would tunnel under it, she had special wiring put in the ground to prevent this from happening...
CHEAP $30 STARRY NIGHT BEGINNER A guide to the night sky worthy of Van Gogh. Starry Night shows you the heavens as seen from your backyard, then leads you through the Dippers, Bears and other constellations one by one. It will even show you the night sky of the date you were born. www.starrynight.com...
...seriously in August, after three I.R.A. suspects were arrested leaving an area of Colombia controlled by rebel guerrillas. The U.S. government, which had played an active but neutral role in the peace process, turned frosty at the idea that the I.R.A. might be involved in terrorism in America?s backyard. Weak denials from republicans were not accepted, and a few weeks later, as a Dublin official put it, "the world turned. Sept. 11 changed the game." After the Twin Towers fell, international distinctions between terrorists and freedom fighters became thinner. Sinn Fein?s U.S. fund raising, worth millions of dollars...