Word: reorders
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...possible. But there is no clear answer to the question, Who really has the right to decide the city's future? The last official census was in 1957, when the Turkomans had a slight edge over the Kurds, 40% to 35%. In the 1970s, Saddam Hussein sought to reorder the city's demographics by driving out some Kurds and Turkomans and busing up thousands of Arab families from the south. (See pictures of life returning to Iraq's streets...
...insurgents, hunt down al-Qaeda, rebuild the electrical and energy grids, establish civilian order, work with political parties to speed a stand-alone government, keep an eye out for Iranian influence--and try not to get killed in the process. According to Kagan, the newly enlarged forces would reorder those priorities and make protecting the Iraqi people Job One. How? With what retired Lieut. General David Barno, who helped Kagan and Keane write the plan, calls "classic counterinsurgency tactics: soldiers going house to house in every block, finding out who lives there, what they do, how many weapons they have...
...especially in show biz, bad luck often first appears wearing a smiley face. For what neither Reeves nor anyone else at the time could see was how television was beginning to reorder America's fantasy life. Yes, the movies had already lost about one-third of their audience to the new medium, but that had to be, in Hollywood's arrogant opinion, a temporary thing. How could a little box, projecting flickering black-and-white images in the corner of the rumpus room, replace the romance of movies on a big screen? It seems likely that Reeves thought he could...
...iPod, you get an excellent lens, powerful zoom and bonus goodies like picture stabilization and night vision. Edit Like A Pro The software that now comes with most computers - iMovie HD for Macs, Movie Maker 2 for PCs - is truly amazing. With iMovie, even a novice can reorder scenes, add titles and set up a sound track. Mix in photos and Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight...
...tornado in Texas, Beijing's decision portends momentous consequences for the global economy down the road. Scrapping the dollar peg is widely seen by economists as the first step toward a free-floating, and much stronger, yuan. If the yuan continues to appreciate, China's new currency policy could reorder global trade and investment, boost the power of Asian consumers, and address global trade imbalances. U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow, who had been a vocal critic of Beijing's peg, said "full implementation" of the new policy "will be a significant contribution toward global financial stability...