Word: scatteredness
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Bush’s expansion of American military commitments abroad in recent weeks has scattered poorly supported contingents of U.S. troops in areas of questionable need, minimizing the opportunities for real success in counter-terrorism operations and in some cases placing American soldiers in unnecessarily vulnerable situations.
It was only when Osama's look-at-me videos were released that Americans got a chance to take the true measure of the man. As we did, he seemed to shrink on sight, tediously repeating his deeply held belief that the world would rejoice as America burned. But America...
The terrorists did not. Counterterrorism experts and government officials interviewed by TIME say that for all the relative calm since Sept. 11, America's luck will probably run out again, sooner or later. "It's going to be worse, and a lot of people are going to die," warns a...
The other four panels are less overt figurative references to the battle. They are canvases scattered with many vibrant ovular epicenters of paint ablaze with yellow and scarlet. These forms could represent the burning ships viewed from above, but their visceral power is that of erotic and sexual implication. Among...
But before Harvard can begin its new campus, it must consolidate its 271 acres, much of it acquired over the last 15 years, scattered in fourteen small parcels and two large, contiguous plots, rented out to dozens of tenants with leases that vary in length from one year to perpetuity...