Word: maintainence
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...According to UNIFIL military and political sources, Israeli forces so far have been staging limited incursions across the border, using tanks to advance around villages at night before withdrawing during the day. In some places Israeli forces have established toeholds across the border and in others maintain forward positions two or three miles inside Lebanese territory, but without necessarily securing the territory to their rear. "I think the Israelis perhaps underestimated the strength of the Hizballah positions," General Alain Pellegrini, the commander of UNIFIL told TIME in an interview at his headquarters in Naqoura. "I think they would have hoped...
...fighting that threatens to destroy the country will force it to accept Israeli forces' remaining in southern Lebanon, thereby isolating Hizballah. Israel has the country in an ever-tightening choke-hold, having cut transport links and leaving the county with less than a week's energy supplies to maintain electricity and essential services. The desperation of Lebanon's government is palpable, and Washington appears to be betting that this will drive a wedge between it and Hizballah...
...restricted, physically and emotionally, women were. I read the diaries of Alma Mahler. She wrote music and had tea. But she couldn't just go on a date. You were composed at all times, which sounds really boring and hard to maintain...
...Lebanese Army is weak not just by neglect, but also by design, however. Like the Lebanese government, the military allocates power and position on the basis of maintaining the delicate sectarian consensus that ended decades of bloody civil war. Domestic political stability rather than military effectiveness has been the guiding principle of its development. "The Lebanese army is a mirror of all the country; its job is to maintain stability in the country," said Retired General Salim Abu Ismail, a former military attache to Washington and the managing editor of Al Defaiya Defense Magazine. "During the Civil War, every sect...
...wedge Wal-Mart has driven between residents of these neighborhoods. Labor and community activists have kept Wal-Mart out of some neighborhoods, but minority real estate developers - and the lure of jobs, whatever the wage - have prevailed in others. But Wal-Mart?s wedge strategy may be hard to maintain...