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Guard officials are not denying the obvious. "There's no question that when you have a sustained ground-combat operation going that the Guard's participating in, that makes recruiting more difficult," says Lieut. General Steven Blum, the Guard's top officer. Roughly one-fourth of the Guard's members have served in Iraq. General Peter Schoomaker, the Army Chief of Staff who was plucked from retirement by Rumsfeld in 2003, told Congress in November that he was in danger of running out of troops. "It's going to get harder the longer we go with this, no question about...
...seen as simply a down payment on aiding the world's poor. Almost three years ago, the Bush Administration signed a pledge, the Monterrey Consensus, to "make concrete efforts" to provide 0.7% of national income in assistance to the world's poor. Currently, the U.S. provides less than one-fourth of that pledge, just 0.15%--a mere 15 cents out of every $100 of U.S. income...
...One-fourth to one-half of the trash could definitely have been recycled,” said Jeremy P. Tchou ’08, a Yard representative...
According to Abbot, men who were 71 to 93 years old and walked less than one-fourth of a mile per day were nearly twice as likely to develop dementia as those who walked more than two miles...
Miranda had also been hit hard off the mat--her mother died at 40. Although Miranda was only 10 at the time, she accepted the death as a lesson for her own life. "I realized that my life would be one-fourth over if the same thing happened to me," she says. "So I needed to take on some challenges fast." She not only made the Olympics but also graduated from Stanford, in 2003. Yale Law School awaits...