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...your troops and tanks surround the town than to be facing a potential ambush around every corner. And in Intifada II, the Palestinians have automatic rifles. So the Israeli troops may be able to protect themselves for a few hours, as they did on Thursday with helicopter gunships circling overhead, but any long-term deployment greatly raises the risks they face - and raises as well as the potential for human rights abuses that would cost Israel on the diplomatic front...
...million [in sales] a year," Peterman says, "but when we started to push beyond that, it wasn't so profitable." The new merchandise required more buyers and stockers, more inventory and more cash tied up in warehouses. "If I had been really smart, I'd have slashed items and overhead and rolled out the stores more slowly," he adds. "But with venture capital, no one's interested in slow development...
...Yellow River. From the map, it seemed a few hours' trek away, but three days later, with no more food or water, I was still trudging through the dunes. At one point, I started running like a mad man and ripping off my clothes. When a plane passed overhead, I stared up hopelessly and imagined all the people sitting inside. To stay alive I drank my urine. Eventually I cupped a plastic bag over the hot sand and licked the condensation that collected inside...
...since low overhead enables virtual banks to offer checking accounts with an average of triple the interest and half the maintenance fees of off-line banks, according to Bankrate.com Now, with slow customer growth and high marketing costs, the e-field is narrowing. Bank One is grounding WingspanBank.com after a $150 million launch. CompuBank sold its accounts to NetBank in March, and Lighthousebank is looking for a buyer...
...stump. But it's his only nod to tradition: nothing about his speech is typical of a Japanese politician seeking votes. "I will carry out reforms that no other parties have dared to touch," Koizumi shouts, the wind whipping his famous locks, helicopters with TV crews whirring overhead. "We will march onward knowing we must better our future, though surely we will feel pain...