Word: deployment
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...finance ministers at least came to a rhetorical agreement to prop up "system-relevant" banks. But which are they, and how many billions does Europe have to deploy? We'll cross that bridge when we get there, the ministers mumbled; meanwhile, we'll wait for the E.U.'s summit on Oct. 15. Share prices, of course, did not wait to plunge even further...
...ground. Air strikes are an inherently imprecise means of targeting suspects: too many innocent homes and lives are destroyed along the way, and seeds of ill-will are sown in the locals against a faceless and apparently malevolent enemy in the sky. More efficient and humane would be to deploy additional soldiers in areas where the Taliban is suspected to hide. President Bush has already promised one additional brigade, but more will be needed to help the 33,000 troops already spread thin across a country one and a half times as large as its westerly neighbor. Adding more troops...
...lowest rate anywhere in the world. That has left much of Africa reliant on satellites for its Web access. But they are costly to use and offer limited capacity. O3b - short for the "other 3 billion" around the world who are unable to tap into the Web - plans to deploy spacecraft more cheaply by orbiting them at lower altitudes than traditional satellites. That should also speed up connections...
...real privilege to have spent the past year understanding and experiencing all aspects of the British armed forces," William said in a statement. "I now want to build on the experience and training I have received to serve operationally - especially because, for good reasons, I was not able to deploy to Afghanistan this year...
...South Ossetia and another breakaway province, Abkhazia, and called for Russian forces to be withdrawn "to the lines held prior to the outbreak of hostilities." Until that happens, they said, the E.U. would postpone further negotiations on a new trade agreement between itself and Russia. They also committed to deploy as many as 200 civilian observers to monitor the imperfect cease-fire French President Nicolas Sarkozy brokered with Moscow a few days into the fighting...