Word: dust
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...January. If Iraq's conduct to that point fails to meet UN requirements, the U.S. will likely push for action. Strategic analysts tend to agree that the window for launching a major ground offensive in Iraq closes in March or April, with the onset of hot weather and summer dust-storms. It reopens, again, around October. But if Iraq cooperates with UNMOVIC through Blix's first 60 days back in Baghdad and a month or two beyond, it could succeed in postponing the question of war until next Fall...
...Indonesia's current crop of less-than-media-savvy rulers. Watch Aa Gym as he tapes his minisermons in the small television studio run by one of his 15 companies. Hopping onto a motor scooter?his preferred ride is a hulking black Kawasaki Eliminator, which remains under its dust cover on this day?Aa Gym putters slowly through his little empire, a patch of about one square kilometer in Bandung that houses his myriad enterprises: the radio station; the website offices; the publisher that puts out his 32 books and dozens of cassettes and VCDs; the cooperative supermarket; the mosque...
Currently, Casey says, he’s working to arm the University with information about what has happened and what will happen—a difficult prediction to make, since the dust is still settling on the post-Sept. 11 legislation...
...company has raised some $100 million from investors, among them Rho Ventures, based in New York City, and IBM. The idea is to sell the kiosk for about $60,000 to retailers, resorts and cruise ships and then supply the machine's magic film-development dust as a consumable (on the model of companies that sell razors cheap and profit on the blades). All revenue from photo development goes into the retailer's pocket. Joel Paymer, co-owner of Camera Land, where a kiosk is being tested in New York City, gushes that "it's going to change...
...Chopra knows something I don’t, I guess I’d better dust off the old suit of armor. Otherwise, come Nov. 7, I’ll roll out of bed at 8 am, just as I do every Thursday morning, and brace myself for the simplicity of preregistration...