Word: homelands
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...system currently exempts visitors from 27 countries, including those belonging to the European Union, who do not need visas for travel in the U.S. lasting less than 90 days. But if the Department of Homeland Security’s initiative progresses according to plan, all Europeans, too, will have to undergo similar scrutiny come October...
After growing up in India, Suchde went to boarding school in Scotland when he was 14. Despite moving away from his homeland, Suchde remains somewhat of a celebrity in his native country...
...Union chapter and eyewitness observers like John J. Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO. The police presence cost $8.5 million in federal funds, diverted directly from the Iraq war budget. Miami’s mayor called the preventive arrests and closure of downtown a “model of homeland security...
...must institute a three-tiered draft system in America, with 15-to-24-month tours of duty for citizens ages 18 to 26. In the new-style draft, conscripts could serve in the military, in homeland security or in a civilian-service program like AmeriCorps--and there is no reason women could not be drafted for the latter categories...
...modern American warrior. He is a volunteer and a professional, as the long-serving regular of Rudyard Kipling's day was. He is a patriot; his modern British comrades, patriots themselves but shy of admitting it, express surprise at the American warrior's outspoken devotion to flag and homeland. He feels a personal relationship with his Commander in Chief, the President, as Kipling's archetypal soldier, Tommy Atkins, seems to have done with his Queen. Above all, like Tommy, he ships out. Ordered to a strange corner of the world, often at the ends of the earth, he packs...