Word: naughts
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Ferati argues that the U.S. military surge may improve security, but that if there is no parallel surge in humanitarian efforts to improve the lives of the vast majority of ordinary Iraqis, all will be for naught. "If we want to see the current improvement in security for long term, we need to immediately increase access services to Iraqi citizens," says Ferati. "They need to see a tangible difference - they need something they are willing to fight for - clinics, schools, jobs. The military is not and should not be there to develop the community. There should be an NGO surge...
...only the first of countless millions of species that could be forced into extinction because of rising temperatures. Conservationists are facing the depressing possibility that all the effort of the past several decades to save endangered species - controlling poaching, creating wildlife reserves, banning animal trade - may be for naught if climate change continues unchecked. In a drastically warmer world, habitats for many species - like the polar bear - could simply disappear, taking the animals with them. Nearly one-third of the world's animals are already under the threat of extinction, and the current rate of species loss...
...foilists to put a previously sub-par team performance behind them with the all-important ‘W.’ But Brandeis took the first two in convincing fashion, solidifying a Judges victory. Although the Crimson won the final bout, it was for naught as the squad fell, 14-13. In its first team competition of the season, the men’s foil was the only saving grace for Harvard, winning 5-4 in the matchup, with co-captain and junior Kai Itameri-Kinter and freshman Hao Meng each posting two victories. The foilists notched eight wins...
Unfazed, one of my fellow hikers plunged an arm into the mire, frowned, reached further, groped around, frowned, and reached yet deeper. When my trainer (and his arm) reemerged, naught but a mud-clump coating could be seen. It oozed muck and scum. Probably toted small swamp creatures. Reeked, needless...
...seemed to have been for naught. After a season in which they went 6-1 in dual racing, the Harvard men’s varsity lightweight boat somehow placed fifth at Eastern Sprints after a race in which they had been seeded first. It was disappointing, to say the least...