Word: standings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...things stand, the United States spends $60 billion a year waging war in Afghanistan, and, depending on whose estimates you trust, a surge would cost between $10 and $40 billion all by itself. In 2008, there were 32,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan; now there are around 68,000. A troop surge on the scale that General Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, is asking for would push us past the 100,000 mark in a war that has been going on for longer than America fought in the Civil War and World War II combined...
...with monochrome images of rainy streets and crumbling minarets; his prose, with its concern for the visual over the intellectual, assumes the nostalgic intimacy of a forgotten postcard. The sadness of his characters merges inseparably with the troubled political and cultural landscape of Turkey: though both characters and nation stand on the brink of happiness, it remains always just out of reach...
...Semele” is an intriguing challenge, simultaneously ancient and contemporary; but the cast and crew hope the interplay between the baroque and the psychedelic, between the light and the dark, will help “Semele” bridge the ages and stand as a uniquely modern opera...
...words Medicare savings are a red flag to some and a carrot to others; depending on where you stand on the issue of health-care reform, the label is code for cuts or a promise to root out fraud and save billions. But far away from the debates in Washington, a group of expatriate baby boomers point to one place they believe real Medicare savings could be realized: Mexico...
...Maradona is typically Argentine," says Lanata. "He has been both [a hobnobbing] snob and an anti-power advocate. He can stand on both sides of the fence at the same time...