Word: brass
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...Army's troop-rotation schedule; force levels would begin to ebb in March 2008 and reach pre-surge levels six months later. And there is more radical planning in the Pentagon, which would halve the current troop levels in a year. The growing friction between Petraeus and the Pentagon brass, with the generals desperate to save their Army before it breaks, will be a story to watch in the next few months...
...tiff with eBay is just the latest in a series of skirmishes occupying Google's senior brass. The Mountain View, Calif.,-based company faces an ongoing billion-dollar suit from Viacom against YouTube, which it bought in 2006. And Google's lawyers are also taking on Microsoft, having filed an antitrust complaint over the way Bill Gates and Co. allegedly hamper competitors' desktop searches. On the consumer front, Google has recently faced a surge of criticism over its privacy policies. Privacy International, a U.K.-based civil liberties group, gives the portal poor marks in a new report, calling Google...
...Moskos favors a return of the military draft, and so do I, with modifications. I have no illusions about this. It's not a very popular idea, and especially not with the military brass, who love their all-volunteer army. So let me try to make it more palatable. Not every 18-year-old would be pressed into two years of military service. Other options would be available: service as homeland- and border-security guards or airport check-in inspectors. In each of these cases, two years' service as a draftee would be the first step in a career ladder...
...list dwindled, the search committee flirted with higher education’s top brass: John W. Etchemendy, provost of Stanford; Amy Gutmann ’71, the former Princeton provost who had taken the reins at the University of Pennsylvania; Alison F. Richard, a former Yale provost who now led one of England’s crown jewels, the University of Cambridge; and Shirley M. Tilghman, a molecular biologist who had led Princeton as president for a half-decade. (The committee seemed prepared to violate the unwritten rule against poaching leaders from fellow Ivies—if the right candidate...
...month period has reached an all-time high. Military officials had predicted such a spike as General David Petraeus began to flow close to 30,000 more U.S. troops into greater Baghdad, stationing many in small outposts dotted across the region. Unfortunately, it's one prediction that the brass got right: At least 220 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq since the end of March, eclipsing the 215 who died in April and May of 2004 during the fight for Fallujah...