Word: scorecard
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...Bush. The scapegoating of CIA Director George Tenet for the false uranium intelligence report does not conceal the fact that Bush, acting on flawed intelligence, launched a war against a sovereign nation not imminently threatening the U.S. Congress and should be held accountable as well. Here's the scorecard to date on Iraq: no uranium, no weapons of mass destruction and no end to the loss of American life, just an ever growing cache of lies and excuses. Dan Nace St. Louis...
...that scorecard of mine seems arbitrary, it might be worth considering that it is no more arbitrary than the concept of merit itself. Even if we agree on the criteria with which to measure, with which to make these decisions, we are still only approximating. And we, as individuals, are the decimals that get rounded off in the process...
...Administration rejected the term peacekeeping to describe postwar efforts there, calling them instead stability operations. Now the phrase is cropping up in news reports of the U.S.'s stay in postwar Iraq. Will this be another success in the Administration's effort to shape the language of war? A scorecard...
...rejected the term peacekeeping to describe postwar efforts there and replaced it with stability operations. Now the phrase is cropping up in news reports of the U.S.?s stay in postwar Iraq. Will this be another success in the Administration?s effort to shape the language of war? A scorecard...
...dominion over most of the emerging trends that will sustain the industry in the coming months: new reinterpretations of staid 1950s and futuristic 1960s looks; geometric designs in black and white; and the very timely military look. So who won the latest bout? Here's one judge's scorecard. 1950s In the biggest trend for fall, Milan reigned supreme. Miuccia Prada went back to that prim and proper decade with boatneck coats and dresses, pencil skirts and crocodile bags and gloves. But her coats were made of men's fabrics and her gloves were oversized and fit for gardening - forcing...