Word: control
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Still, some intelligent measures have been suggested in the wake of this disaster. Among them are increased counseling and mental health services in schools as well as tighter gun control laws...
...response to the shootings, many state legislatures, including Colorado's, have suspended or dropped legislation that would loosen current gun controls. These actions are fitting both in the sense that America is in desperate need of more serious gun control and in the context of the recent shooting and its effect on the sense of safety in communities around the country...
Parents across America can try to have more control over their children's lives. Legislators left and right can put new restrictions on the Internet. Trench coats and so-called "Goth" wear (which have actually been popular without incident for years) can be banned from school dress codes. The government can issue even more vouchers for kids to be yanked out of public high school and thrown into debatably better private schools...
...that seems like the kind of overwhelming force Clark had in mind in 1975, still fresh from being wounded in Vietnam and winning a Silver Star for valor, it's not. This campaign is all about controlled force--controlled by politicians in everything from target selection to level of intensity--and that control is making Clark's job more complicated than he could have ever imagined...
...reserves and refineries, but they have a whole network of smaller storage reserves," a French official says. "We thought they'd only have petrol for a month, but now it turns out they have a capacity far greater than that." And the pulverizing attacks against Serbia's command-and-control network may not be as successful as Pentagon targeteers think. After the Gulf War, the Air Force found out that Iraq's command network "had not collapsed," despite 500 strikes, and that "the system turned out to be more redundant and more able to reconstitute itself" than the Pentagon thought...