Word: hosted
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When I mentioned some of the arguments against social-host laws at the San Diego County Alcohol-Policy Panel, DiCiccio offered another reason that kids shouldn't drink with adults: alcohol could hurt their developing brains...
...classic work with Nathan Glazer, Beyond the Melting Pot, offered the theory that ethnicity, more than class, was the key social-organizing principle in American cities. Tim was proudly, indelibly Irish--not only in his early beer-drinking years but also in his more Jesuitical incarnation as the host of Meet the Press, when he refused to socialize on Saturday nights. "He's become a monk," Maureen would say. And yet, even at the top of his profession, he never lost track of his roots--in part because he never lost track of his dad, Big Russ, a Buffalo...
...keeps an estimated 350 thermonuclear bombs in six NATO countries. In four of those - Belgium, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands - the weapons are stored at the host nation's air bases, where they are guarded by specially trained U.S. military personnel...
...While it deemed the teams guarding U.S. weapons as well trained, the report found "inconsistencies in personnel, facilities and equipment provided to the security mission by the host nation." In particular, it said that areas in need of repair at several of the sites include "support buildings, fencing, lighting and security systems...
...Although technically owned by the U.S., nuclear bombs stored at NATO bases are designed to be delivered by planes from the host country. That arrangement can be politically uncomfortable: when Belgian Defense Minister Pieter De Crem admitted for the first time in January that the country even housed U.S. weapons, the revelation caused a national controversy, with opposition MPs demanding - in vain - for them to be removed immediately. In 2001, when the Greek air force ordered a new fighter jet, it chose a model that could not carry the B-61, forcing the U.S. to withdraw its weapons...