Word: garnering
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Retired Army LT. General Jay Garner, who will serve as civil administrator in charge of reconstruction and humanitarian until an interim Iraqi government is formed, has direct responsibility for setting Iraq on the road to democracy and prosperity. His self-imposed timeline: three months to complete the task. Slightly less optimistic is the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which has given itself 18 months to set everything right...
...hope that CASAH’s recommendations, as well as the attention to the issue it has been able to garner, will turn the dreams of past decades into a reality. The trauma that sexual assault survivors have endured at Harvard demands no less...
...might garner as much as $10 million in federal grants from agencies such as the National Science Foundation, according to DEAS Dean Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, but FAS will probably bear the brunt of the building’s cost...
...influence among Shiite clerics right now, in which context a prominent pro-U.S. ayatollah was stabbed to death last week. And many Iraqi Shiites take their politics secular. But SCIRI's leadership has considerable influence in Najaf, and if they're alienated from the process launched by General Garner, political stability could prove elusive. If the U.S. objective is to exclude groups with ties to Iran, that could put it on a collision course with many Iraqi Shia. If not, the SCIRI's objections may be overcome - the group has emphasized that it is not demanding Shiite control...
...according to predetermined plans. U.S. commanders improvised all along the way, first when they encountered more resistance in the south than expected, and then when Republican Guard units failed to show up and fight for Baghdad, or Mosul, or Tikrit. And like the generals who waged the war, General Garner may find that flexibility is his crucial weapon in waging the peace...