Word: deployments
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...comes into service for the first time anywhere on Dec. 1, when Emirates airlines takes it on a maiden voyage from Dubai to Sydney. Flying time will be 14 hours, but these tireless behemoths can handle journeys of 17 hours or more, and Emirates has additional plans to deploy its fleet of eight A340s on journeys to North America and New Zealand. Other airlines are planning to deploy the planes - Singapore Airlines in February 2004 and Thai Airways in 2005. Staying power is not all that the new aircraft have to recommend them. An array of design and service innovations...
...side in Iraq have proved disappointing. Despite the new UN Security Council resolution, India, Bangladesh and Portugal have said no; Pakistan and South Korea have prevaricated, with the former increasingly unlikely to get involved. The best news on that front had been the decision by Turkey to deploy more than 10,000 troops, but then opposition from the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council appears to have stymied that possibility...
Turkish officials tell TIME that Ankara wants to station some troops between Baghdad and the northern Kurdish stronghold of Suleimaniyah, a move that would upset Iraqi Kurds. Aware of the risk of violence such a move would pose, U.S. commanders are pushing to deploy the Turks elsewhere, between Baghdad and the Syrian border to the west. A senior Turkish official says Ankara is considering opening a new border post closer to the Syrian border where the Turkomans--a minority friendly to Ankara's interests--are prevalent, and where, they hope, Turkish troops will be able to enter Iraq safely. Winning...
...million phone numbers, on Oct. 1. But on Tuesday an Oklahoma federal judge said the FTC lacked such authority. Politicians heard the ringing in their ears. By Thursday--faster than any bill had cleared the Capitol since the 1941 declaration of war on Japan--Congress empowered the FTC to deploy its list...
...conflicts of any type" simultaneously, as well as carry out peacekeeping operations anywhere in the world. That's a tall order for a military that can barely handle the one conflict it's already fighting on its own soil. At the conference, Putin unveiled plans to dust off and deploy SS-19 missiles, known to NATO as "Stilettos" since 1980, to replace Russia's worn-out land-based strategic nuclear arsenal. "I'm speaking here about the most menacing missiles - with hundreds of warheads," he said. "Their capability to overcome any anti-missile defense is unrivaled." Should the world worry...