Word: outsmarts
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...insurgents' resilience. "I know this counterinsurgency is frustrating," Major Dan Williams tells members of Fox Company after another fruitless day of chasing enemy fighters. "But you've almost had insurgency Darwinism. All the stupid ones are dead." The Marines aren't getting much help in their efforts to outsmart their adversaries. Residents who are reluctant to help the U.S. identify insurgents are equally unwilling to cooperate with the U.S.-trained Iraqi forces, whom some xenophobic Fallujis consider foreigners. The cops are public-order battalions from Baghdad, and the Iraqi army units are made up almost exclusively of Shi'ites from...
...giants like MTV, Disney, Time Warner and Fox clamor to deliver content to the "third screen," revenue leakage will only get worse. The solution? Mobile carriers need to revamp their back-end systems, ensure real-time authorization of purchases and secure their electronic storefronts. Even then, teens will probably outsmart them...
...their seismologists could predict the next Big One, but their leaders also gave the impression they would be ready for it when it came. But when the ground shook under Kobe on Jan. 17, 1995, that faith suffered its own Richter shock, and Japanese confidence in their ability to outsmart nature lay in ruins ... By night people huddled in high schools or town halls, in stairwells or around bonfires. By day they drifted back to the wreckage of their lives. Kazumichi Kawabata, 45 and grieving, searched brokenly through the remains of his house. He was looking for his driver...
...West. Colin Sowden Abergavenny, Wales There has been a total failure by European nations and the U.S. in addressing the menace of Islamic fundamentalism. Radical clerics who, according to the standards of the Western world, are not sufficiently educated or well versed in using sophisticated tools have managed to outsmart the world's best intelligence networks and governments. These clerics have upped the ante and cleverly spawned the cancer of hatred in the thoughts of the innocent young and the gullible common folk in Muslim countries around the globe. It is a psychological game that President George W. Bush...
...There has been a total failure by European nations and the U.S. in addressing the menace of Islamic fundamentalism. Radical clerics who, according to the standards of the Western world, are not sufficiently educated or well versed in using sophisticated tools have managed to outsmart the world's best intelligence networks and governments. These clerics have upped the ante and cleverly spawned the cancer of hatred in the thoughts of the innocent young and the gullible common folk in Muslim countries around the globe. It is a psychological game that President George W. Bush has not yet grasped. The West...