Word: contact
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...fought in the 2006 war. On the walls of his sitting room, "martyr" portraits of his fallen comrades are plastered alongside pictures of Hizballah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini. In another room, a walkie-talkie constantly squawked as Hizballah fighters kept in contact with one another...
...twin-engine plane owned by Venezuelan airline Santa Barbara failed to contact control towers as expected after it took off from Merida en route to Simon Bolivar International Airport outside of Caracas, said Gen. Antonio Rivero, Venezuela's emergency management director...
...Heba Kotb is running late for her daily Cairo clinic. Her patients, men and women, thumb indifferently through society magazines, carefully avoiding any eye contact with one another. The clinic is cheerful and warm, brightly decorated in shades of yellow and blue, and the only clue to the nature of her practice is the title of her book, on display in the waiting room: For Adults Only...
...contact, Jake Olkkola, is really awful at getting back to us,” Kopelman says. “How hard can it be to return a message, or return an e-mail? Right now, we have teams that want to play us, but we don’t know what to tell them—we don’t even know if we’ll have the field...
...large percentage of budgets must go to protecting foreigners. It is also of deep concern that humanitarian projects cannot be easily monitored because of a lack of security. For the handful of foreign NGOs currently in Baghdad the situation is frustrating, they say, because of the lack of direct contact with their Iraqi beneficiaries. "You are dependent on secondhand information - you could be in Amman or Washington or Paris," says Guy Siri, who says he can count the number of international aid agencies in Baghdad on one hand...