Word: control
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Harvard had been impressed with how SSI guards had performed during Commencement exercises, when they supplemented the regular force and helped with crowd control...
Unfortunately, the 22-year old San Francisco native may only have a cursory knowledge of Cambridge city politics. Dismissing Cambridge residents' worries about his ignorance of rent control, gentrification or zoning, Snowberg says, "You don't need to know those things to be on the council...
...announced Tuesday that his forces now occupy the northern third of the breakaway republic along the east-west line of the River Terek - a fact borne out by reports of fierce fighting from villages deep inside Chechnya. And that suggests that Moscow is trying to partition the territory, taking control of its northern plains and forcing separatist forces back into the mountainous south...
...since Russia began bombing and cut off gas supplies, and that number will grow if Moscow goes ahead with plans to cut Chechnya's electricity supply. More alarming, perhaps, is Putin's announcement on Monday that the refugees will be resettled in those parts of Chechnya now under Russian control. After all, the last Russian leader to move whole populations around the Caucasus like chess pieces was Stalin...
...road to a Palestinian state may now be open, but Palestinians aren?t exactly queuing up at the on-ramps. Yasser Arafat Tuesday approved a draft agreement to open a direct road link between the Palestinian-controlled territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which he plans to combine into a Palestinian state. But Palestinians will be allowed to travel the road only at Israel?s discretion, and that?s left many of Arafat?s constituents angry and frustrated. "To travel this road to Gaza in my car, I?ll need a permit from the Israelis," says TIME West...