Word: rapid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...French soldiers were a symbolic down payment on the 10,000 troops who will form a rapid-reaction force to back up the 22,500 U.N. peacekeepers already in the country. The landing on Mount Igman also seemed to lend support to the Bosnia U.N. military command's tentative plan to open a supply route from besieged Sarajevo to the sea at Split...
...force for anything beyond shooting back when under attack. On occasion it has been particularly frustrating to U.N. and NATO officers when they wanted to call in air strikes on the Bosnian Serbs and U.N. officials refused to go along. This time, French and British military leaders argued, the rapid-reaction troops should be authorized initially by the U.N. but then be available to the peacekeeping generals to use in Bosnia as they...
...will pay the $270 million cost for the new 12,500 member U.N. rapid reaction force for Bosnia? Since Republicans in Congress balked at a U.N. request that the U.S. pay 31 percent of the cost, President Clinton has been seeking other sources of financing. One idea is for the U.S. to contribute equipment to the force instead of cash. And, much as the Bush Administration did during the Persian Gulf War, Clinton will appeal to wealthy Persian Gulf and Asian countries to help out with...
...glossy brochures we get each year give us vague, even nebulous answers; they tell us that Radcliffe is "an independent corporation for the pursuit of women's higher education," "an advocate for women at Harvard and in society" and "a catalyst for constructive change in a period of rapid social transformation...
Although Radcliffe has been accused by many of being silent in the past on issues of concern to women, it has made rapid strides over the past several years. Perhaps most heartening was their recent support of the Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard, started by a group of Radcliffe alumnae from the Classes of '53 and '58 in an effort to achieve full equality for female faculty and undergraduates on campus. A fundraising drive spearheaded by Radcliffe led to the establishment this past fall of a new fellowship for junior faculty women at Radcliffe's Bunting Institute...