Word: deployment
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...There’s no greater challenge than development in poor parts of the world, and there’s no private entity and few public entities that have the kind of resources to deploy that the Gates Foundation does,” Summers said. “I am honored to have been asked to help...
...with that, the President came face to face with one of the few hard-and-fast realities in an uncertain war: extended tours are wearing the troops thin. Most Marines now deploy for seven months abroad and spend seven at home, instead of the traditional 14 months back. The Army too has dropped its customary 1-to-2 ratio and extended rotations to 15 months abroad and 12 at home...
Estimated number of recent deaths, according to an official government tally in Sudan, a widely contested figure. A 26,000-member U.N. and African Union peacekeeping force is expected to deploy to Darfur by the end of the year...
...speculation that Putin's idea of "immediate measures" will be to build up its forces in border areas now that it is free of the CFE treaty. Last month, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who increasingly positions himself as Putin's hawkish potential successor, said that Russia would deploy its newly tested Iskander-M cruise missiles in is westernmost Kaliningradsky region, wedged among Poland, Lithuania and Belarus, unless the U.S. scraps its defense shield bases in Poland and the Czech Republic. Ivanov's threats only infuriated Poland and made Lithuania consider asking the U.S. for deploying...
...idea that governments and nongovernmental organizations cannot let another country's sovereignty stop them from fighting injustice. "You cannot offer humanitarian help and then it's over, like a Good Samaritan," he says. Now that he's Foreign Minister, some French aid organizations worry that he may try to deploy French troops to bolster relief efforts. That, they argue, could strip humanitarian groups of their role as impartial actors in political conflicts. More bluntly, Rony Brauman, a former MSF president and one of Kouchner's strongest critics, accuses him of engaging in "media stunts." Kouchner as Foreign Minister...