Word: sos
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...Roger Farrow at the Singapore headquarters of International SOS, a medical-assistance company, agrees. "The traveling public today have two concerns that they didn't have a few years ago. They relate directly to security and health. We've noticed a kind of nervousness in the calls we get now, and the nervousness comes from a lack of information...
...better mood. Now, at last, he can offer his guests something - Arab-style sweetened tea. He has two other visitors, officials from the women's federation. It soon becomes apparent that these ladies have brought the tea with them, probably in response to Nadam's SOS. Having saved his face, they quickly go to work on restoring his pride, telling us over and over again what a good driver, honest man and decent human being he is. Now able to look us on the eye, Nadam beams and orders Senaa to refill our glasses...
Record, Strength of Schedule (SOS) and Ratings Percentage Index (RPI)—These three are primary criteria in all sports. RPI is a weighted average of a team’s record, its opponent’s records, and its opponent’s opponent’s records. SOS is a weighted average of the latter two. An important note—teams with records below .500 are not considered for selection...
...result merely signaled a brief pause in her ongoing struggle to ensure that those injured or bereaved by terrorism get not only justice, but also the recognition, assistance, and dignity they deserve to carry on with their lives. With the month-long Paris trial now over, Rudetzki and her SOS Attentats (SOS Attacks) association face a different sort of battle: finding the funding necessary to survive the costly litigation rising from the terror cases to which they are civil parties. "Victims' rights aren't respected if victims themselves aren't involved to insist that justice is done," Rudetzki notes. "That...
...Health-care services were uninterested and unprepared for the special needs of terror victims. The legally trained Rudetzki decided to do something. She began relentlessly lobbying politicians and administrators for legislation adapted to victims of terrorism, a scourge she correctly predicted would affect increasing numbers of people. She founded SOS Attentats with other terror victims in 1986, the same year a bomb on the Champs Elysées killed two and wounded 21. That attack coincided with parliamentary elections, and Rudetzki's crusade for victims suddenly got a fuller hearing. Soon, France had its first law granting special status...