Word: deployments
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...year ago; depleted inventories and high worldwide demand, along with forecasts of a colder than average winter, are expected to boost prices even higher. Last week 111 members of Congress--Democrats and Republicans, mostly from the Northeast and the Midwest--sent a letter to Clinton asking him to deploy the SPR. To dramatize the problem Friday, Gore held an event in Pittsburgh that featured a number of people battered by rising oil prices, including an elderly woman named Annie Young who said she didn't know how she was going to pay for heating oil since she already couldn...
...Oprah is the standard for the presidency, then 90% of the country is qualified. From Oprah you can learn that the best gift Bush has ever given was a kiss to his wife (don't parse that either), that he loves his kids, and that he can sometimes deploy his mother's acerbic wit. But if you're more worried about your Social Security check than congeniality, I suggest you flip over to C-SPAN...
...week the U.N. issued a report that reflects the heart of Annan's new vision for peacekeeping. The idea is that the U.N. would call on ready battalions from armies around the world to step into emerging hot spots. These "surge" troops would be trained to work together and deploy quickly. Tactical units from Sweden, say, would be trained to work side by side with Pakistani logistics officers. Lego blocks for international order--but Legos with teeth. While the U.N. would hold to the rules that permit peacekeepers to fire only in self-defense, the definition of self-defense would...
...Bush, both support a national missile defense system; the intensity of resolve, however, is different. Gore is not necessarily prepared to step over Russian objections and violate the ABM treaty in order to implement missile defense, while Bush is reportedly willing to take whatever steps necessary in order to deploy the system. It?s not clear which position will win public support; Americans reportedly are in favor of missile defense, but almost no one seems interested in exacerbating strains between the U.S. and Russia...
...deliver either 1,650 lbs. of high explosives or a nuclear warhead a distance of 300 miles, plus as many as 28 torpedoes with similar warhead capability (although the Russians said the Kursk was carrying no nuclear weapons under an agreement with the U.S. that neither side will deploy tactical nuclear weapons...