Word: contact
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While the Pakistan army strenuously denies the charge of coddling the re-energized Taliban, its chief military spokesman concedes that the army maintains "indirect" contact with an assortment of militant groups it once cultivated. "Which agency in the world would break its last contact with them?" asked Abbas in an interview before the promotions were announced. However, critics contend that the Pakistan army is not yet prepared to sever its links with its former clients in the militant underworld, perhaps as a way of ensuring some kind of influence over Afghanistan, where radical Islamists are once again threatening the stability...
...leave of absence to go on his Mormon mission, traveling to Chile. While playing in a pickup soccer game there, Hatch tore ligaments in his knee, which forced him to cut short his trip and return to the U.S. for surgery. While rehabbing at home, he re-established contact with Crowton, who had gotten a job as the offensive coordinator at LSU. After rehab and a tryout, Hatch became a scholarship quarterback at one of the nation’s premier football schools. When 2007 starter Matt Flynn graduated and presumed successor Ryan Perilloux was kicked off the team...
...matter how a particular brain turns out, its development proceeds in stages, generally from back to front. Some of the brain regions that reach maturity earliest - through proliferation and pruning - are those in the back of the brain that mediate direct contact with the environment by controlling such sensory functions as vision, hearing, touch and spatial processing. Next are areas that coordinate those functions: the part of the brain that helps you know where the light switch is in your bathroom even if you can't see it in the middle of the night. The very last part...
...were to ever build a house on the coast, I'm going to contact the guy who built this.' AARON REED, spokesman for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, marveling at a lone house that withstood Hurricane...
...practiced it before, this situation,” McVeigh said. “I made eye contact with Francine who had the assist and she passed it to me and I just deflected...