Word: pullback
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...long run, pacifying enough of the country to allow for a U.S. pullback will require not just an effective military strategy but also a political one. The U.S. has failed in 19 months to get significant reconstruction work off the ground. Lack of security is partly to blame: kidnappings, killings and sabotage have driven out aid agencies and private contractors. The Bush Administration has managed to spend about $1 billion of the $18.4 billion Congress appropriated for reconstruction a year ago. And plenty more may be required to stabilize Iraq--a prospect that seems particularly dim in the midst...
...doom and gloom surrounding growing U.S. health-care costs continued last week, when a much watched survey of company health-insurance plans revealed a double-digit increase in family premiums for the fourth year in a row. Despite a slight pullback in the rate of growth, premiums over the past year jumped 11.2%, outpacing inflation and growth in wages by about five times. According to the survey, conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust, that hike was equally borne by companies and employees, whose share of the costs rose an average 9.8% for singles...
...forces seemed determined to go with guns blazing after every faction that challenged them, the tactic threatened to create a backlash that would engulf British troops. In conversations with Bush, Blair urged calm, according to government sources who argue he can take some credit for the April 30 pullback from Fallujah. For both Blair and Bush, much now depends on being able to hand over to an Iraqi authority at the end of June. If that can be achieved Blair will be able to claim some final vindication; but if Iraq descends into a civil war with British troops caught...
TIME: The Madrid bombing triggered the market's first 5% pullback in a year. Will investors ever get over these events...
...back at least 50 km to bases south of Seoul over the next few years. It makes military sense?a few thousand grunts were never going to block an invasion by the 1.1 million-strong North Korean military. And in an era of precision-guided munitions, officials insist the pullback won't undermine the U.S.-South Korean defense alliance?or send the wrong signal to Pyongyang. Says Lieut. Colonel Steven Boylan, a spokesman for U.S. forces in South Korea: "Everything we are doing is to enhance the alliance, not diminish it." With anti-American sentiment still strong in South Korea...