Word: maintainence
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...enlist Afghan proxies to search the caves for bin Laden while U.S. warplanes pummeled possible sanctuaries from overhead. The scheme failed miserably. The Afghans were poorly trained and ill equipped and lacked their opponents' to-the-death fighting spirit. Officials with the U.S. military's Central Command maintain that they did not have enough troops on the ground to mount an assault on Tora Bora; but U.S. commanders resisted dispatching even the 1,000 Marines in Afghanistan at the time to find bin Laden. Some officers now say that instead of trying to finish the job quickly and with minimal...
...international relief effort. Washington has committed $280 million to Afghanistan this year--more than any other donor country--but aside from the yellow food packets dropped by allied warplanes during the war, ordinary Afghans have seen few tangible signs of the anticipated U.S. assistance. Because the Pentagon wants to maintain the combat readiness of American forces in order to launch search-and-destroy missions against remnant enemy targets, U.S. soldiers don't mix much with the civilian population. The U.S. has devoted just $16 million over two years to civilian projects such as school reconstruction and well digging, and most...
...become director of operations at an Internet data--center company headquartered in Denver. "I had been in the industry for about nine years and had quite a bit of experience," he says. "I always felt that it was the people who didn't have the experience and couldn't maintain their value in the company who would be laid off." Canahuati, who lives in Washington, lost his job last year. He has moved in with his girlfriend to save money and is temping as a Web designer while weighing a return to school...
...Others argue that states shouldn't ask students to pay more for remedial classes because doing so amounts to punishing them for having attended terrible high schools. Finally, remedial teachers point out that a disproportionate percentage of their students are black or Hispanic. That means states already struggling to maintain diverse campuses in an anti-affirmative-action climate will have to work around yet another obstacle to minority enrollment...
...bank's Web-based billing service is the most convenient way to make payments that are different each time. The catch is that there's sometimes a monthly fee of $7 to $11. But most large banks waive the fee for the first six months or for customers who maintain joint balances of about $5,000, according to CheckFree, the largest behind-the-scenes provider of home-banking technology. Bank of America and Citigroup are among a handful of major banks that have made online bill payment free for everyone...