Word: escorting
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...struggles daily to reestablish the career he'd given up in order to help his wife nurture hers. As the primary parent, caring for the children often for weeks at a time, he maintains a breakneck schedule, juggling job interviews to attend class trips with his son, or escort his daughter on a playdate. He routinely number-crunches his shamefully inequitable child support payments in order to see to it that his kids are clothed, fed and, on good days, equipped with a GameBoy...
...consciousness has been raised, it doesn’t translate into immediate action. Several people sign up to escort for an abortion clinic at the end of the meeting. But the group plans no demonstration, circulates no petitions, makes no plans to sabotage final clubs and burns no bras...
...Nasiriyah, but U.S. Congressman Silvestre Reyes, whose El Paso district encompasses Fort Bliss, says he was told by a senior officer that the convoy was ambushed on a bridge and had not taken a wrong turn. The lightly armed unit didn't have a chance. It had no combat escort, he says. If that's true, the fault for the convoy's vulnerability would lie not with its leader but with Army commanders. Reyes is reserving judgment while the Army investigates...
...shuttle, SafetyWalk and the escort van are all services HUPD recommends for safe travel around campus, Catalano said...
...Saddam "serious consequences," meaning war, if he passed up a last chance to disarm. The negotiations were tough. The French were determined that if Iraq was found to be in breach, the Security Council should meet again before going to war. On Nov. 2, as he was waiting to escort his daughter down the aisle at her wedding, Powell received a call from Dominique de Villepin, the French Foreign Minister, and the two men settled on the outlines of a compromise. Six days later, the Security Council voted unanimously in favor of Resolution 1441. The mood at State was ebullient...