Word: equips
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...Security Council, is a proposal that various national armies create rapid-deployment units that could serve under the U.N. flag when needed. The Secretary-General hopes that such forces could be dispatched within days after a crisis erupts, rather than the several months it now takes to assemble and equip peacekeeping units. "It would be a complete change," he says. "If I could say I will send troops in the next three days, this would have an impact completely different from saying I will have troops in the next three months...
...government would have to pay to administerthe program; to feed, equip and house volunteers;and to provide the money for college that Clintonsaid would be included in such a program...
...very likely that we will equip the houses with a card key system over a relatively short period of time. By that I mean a few years," Jewett said yesterday...
...case, a simple solution to the "voter schizophrenia" problem is to equip all voting booths with two levers--Republican and Democrat--that would register votes for all the candidates of the respective parties. Although President Bush showed us that desperate measures are always in order in an election year, such action might cheapen the electoral process...
Falco has found, surprisingly, that the most successful classroom programs use techniques like role-playing to equip self-conscious teens with basic ! social skills, such as as how to conduct a conversation or respond to rudeness, as well as how to resist peer pressure to get high. The working assumption is that kids who can handle their anxiety in social situations are less likely to turn to drugs for comfort...