Word: guam
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...loud that junior Ron Rood says, "I felt for that moment that I was hearing." Then there was a silence as the crowd considered the friend and classmate who police said had admitted double homicide. Son of a U.S. Army chief warrant officer, Mesa is a native of Guam. He was an enthusiastic athlete in high school; the Washington Post noted that when he was a school wrestler, it had once taken three boys to pin him. After transferring to Gallaudet's Model Secondary School for the Deaf, he had academic problems. His lawyer later suggested that he reads...
...study, conducted by Dr. G. Michael Summer, involved the USS Frank Cable, a repair vessel based in Guam. Summer, who was the medical officer aboard the ship from 1996 to 1998. His research found that over a six-month period during his service aboard the Cable, "female crew members accounted for 72 percent of the total visits [to the ship's sick bay] while constituting only 22 percent of the crew...
TIME.com: Now that the 24 detained U.S. personnel have returned from Hainan, the Navy faces the question of when to relaunch surveillance missions. There have been reports that the USS Kitty Hawk, currently sailing for Guam, could be deployed in the South China Sea to provide fighter escorts for EP-3s. How likely is the Navy to send up fighters...
When the U.S. crew members landed safely in Guam early Thursday morning, the crisis appeared to finally be coming to a close. Congressional leaders from both parties heaped praise on President Bush’s first major foreign policy test, citing his patience as the main reason that the situation was finally resolved. Yet we must ask at what price the crisis was resolved. For one thing, our final letter used the phrase “very sorry” in reference to landing in Chinese territory without permission. Despite the fact that we did nothing wrong, we were still...
Only a few years ago, almost all U.S.-based franchising chains and other multinational businesses opted to send American managers to oversee their foreign offices. Lately, though, skilled U.S. managers have been saying "no, thanks," when asked to move their families to Guam or Glasgow. Relocation abroad is harder for the growing ranks of two-career couples. Another reason: a tight labor market obliges companies to accommodate their managers' preferences...