Word: mountain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WHAT THEY CAN'T DO: May find it difficult to hover at mountain altitudes...
Gone to Ground Anticipating U.S. strikes, Taliban leader Mohammed Omar has reportedly left his headquarters in Kandahar and joined Taliban fighters in their mountain retreats...
...MOUNTAIN OPERATIONS: Scramble over jagged, ice-covered terrain to launch guerrilla-style attacks
...executives of Veritas Software, based in Mountain View, Calif., called key members of their technology staff as soon as they learned that terrorists had attacked New York City and Washington--home to many customers, including the Pentagon, that use Veritas products to manage the storage of data on everything from customer accounts to employee benefits. The Veritas execs prayed that their clients had escaped unharmed, but in the meantime they mobilized six "SWAT teams" of technicians to be dispatched when summoned by bewildered companies trying to reclaim their data--and their future...
...touching down in Saudi Arabia, Oman and Egypt for consultations before moving on to Uzbekistan, which agreed to allow U.S. forces to use one of its airbases for search-and-rescue missions, but not for assaults on neighboring Afghanistan. Some 1,000 U.S. troops of the élite 10th Mountain Division left their base in New York en route to Uzbekistan...