Word: naval
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...course in arithmetic (or perhaps just new batteries in your calculator). The U.S. team members, all public high-school students, started out by competing against 350,000 of their peers on the American High School Mathematics Examination, aced two tougher exams, and prepped for a month at the U.S. Naval Academy. Only then did they board a plane and become the first squad in the Math Olympiad's 35-year history to get perfect scores across the board, out- stripping 68 other nations to win the competition...
...international motor company who is content to stay at home and dance while reading his Bible. (By the way, this was the most interesting scene of the entire film). His placid life is interrupted when his cousin Fred (Chris Eigeman) arrives, purportedly the lead man for his naval ship which is supposed to arrive in Barcelona soon. Fred likes to party and make up lewd jokes about Ted's nonexistent sex-life. But this all sounds more interesting than the film actually...
...post-Tailhook Navy being overly sensitive to political correctness? Absolutely not, said Naval Operations Chief Jeremy Boorda, as he explained why the Navy had withdrawn its prime candidate for the Pacific command. Boorda argued that a lengthy (and possibly hostile) Senate confirmation hearing for Admiral Stanley Arthur, who has been criticized for his handling of a high- profile sexual-harassment case, would leave a dangerous command vacancy that must be filled as soon as possible...
...might have been because of rough seas. There are even the beginnings of a backflow: some escapees who were caught and interned have despaired of ever getting to the American mainland and have chosen to return to Haiti rather than continue living indefinitely in jammed quarters at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...
...switch, so far at least, improved the situation in Haiti. Refugees were continuing to flee at the rate of 2,000 a day. Ad-hoc refugee camps at Guantanamo naval base and elsewhere were jammed to capacity, and Coast Guard cutters were nearly overwhelmed. In the Haitian countryside, many villages are being depopulated by the exodus; once bustling main streets are now virtually deserted, and more homes seem to be boarded up than inhabited...