Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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COVER: Photograph by Jean-Claude Coutausse -- Contact Press Images...
...military's aim in using the sayarot is to pinpoint Palestinian troublemakers and reduce contact and friction with the general population. Since the commandos went into large-scale action, the army has cut back routine patrols, maintained fewer outposts and limited the imposition of curfews in Palestinian towns and villages. Overall troop strength in the territories has been trimmed a third, from 10,000 soldiers to about...
...might cause such a ripple to spread across a fault remains a mystery. Numerous ideas have been suggested. Brune believes sliding rock physically deforms like tires squealing on pavement. In this case, what greases the skid is an invisible air pad that prevents the two surfaces from establishing frictional contact. Just last week, in a paper published by the science journal Nature, a team of researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park offered an alternative possibility. Groundwater, they theorized, trapped under high pressure, might also serve to pry faults apart, allowing them to slip with a minimum expenditure...
...political chaos and famine in Somalia be given as much attention as the carnage in Yugoslavia, which he would put largely in the hands of the European Community. Some council members grumble that he is arrogant and inattentive and that he too often goes over their heads to directly contact foreign ministers and heads of state, many of whom are old friends. At the moment an uneasy truce prevails, but like cease-fires elsewhere, it may not hold...
...hard finding people who were willing to be interviewed. He got the names of potential contacts from probation and anti-gang officers but, says Hull, "these guys aren't exactly looking for publicity." He showed up more than once for a street-corner meeting, then waited in vain for a source to show up -- wondering all the while whether he was about to become the target of a beating or a drive-by shooting himself. Even when he made contact, he says, "it took a long time to get them to trust me." But in the end, Jon found...