Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They are an attractive tool for the inexpensive spreading of death," explains William M. Arkin, the chief military consultant to Human Rights Watch, which issued a report about the danger of duds titled "Ticking Time Bombs." The report states that the actual dud rate, as measured in the Gulf War, was close to a quarter of the bomblets, over four times the official Air Force estimate. Arkin said duds result from a variety of reasons and that their fuse work is often shoddy. He added that the cluster bombs have "Gameboy-like electronics," in an effort to create widescale destruction...
There is clearly a lot to be learned about cluster bombs and whether, in the parade of deadly weapons, theirs is a particularly ghastly part. The Defense Department will release a preliminary report on the Kosovo campaign in mid-October. However, when I talked to its spokesperson he was unsure if the report would discuss cluster bombs...
...semester-long student survey reveals widespread dissatisfaction with Undergraduate Health Services (UHS), according to a report released yesterday...
...that year, students on the Academic Affairs Committee of the Harvard Foundation for Race and Intercultural Relations completed a comprehensive report advocating the creation of an ethnic studies concentration...
...country, our schools should be turning out thousands of Bill Gates clones. Not so fast. It seems half the screens are dark because the geeks who backed this rush to get computers in schools forgot one key element - training the teachers. Education Week magazine has just completed a comprehensive report on technology in schools that shows teachers don't know what to do with all that RAM. Almost 50 percent don't use computers at all in teaching, and only 61 percent use the Internet. And the educational software that's out there doesn't provide much promise: 70 percent...