Word: swath
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...those casualties lies with the Northern Alliance. Alliance commanders have provided their strategy for toppling the regime to anyone who will listen: once American bombs softened Taliban forces, the Alliance planned to make its move into the key northern outposts of Mazar-i-Sharif, Kunduz and Taliqan, cutting a swath through the heart of Taliban country. As the Alliance rolled back the Taliban in the north, the thinking went, the certainty of defeat would produce mass defections from the Taliban's ranks, and the regime would implode...
WHAT THEY CAN DO: Lay down punishing fire over a narrow swath of terrain; accurate from an altitude...
...instigators of the revolution are two standards that allow machines to talk to one another, known as Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11b or, more popularly, Wi-Fi. Both connect gadgets cheaply by accessing a swath of free radio spectrum over which to exchange digital data. Bluetooth, named for a Viking king (one of its original backers is Sweden's Ericsson) and supported by some 2,500 companies that constitute the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, is basically a substitute for all those cables you now use to link peripheral devices, such as PDAs and printers, to other computerized devices. Chips...
...fact, Along probably doesn't hold any rights to the land of his ancestors. In Malaysia, says lawyer and activist Harrison Ngau, control of land rights lies almost entirely with the state governments. In Along's case, a large swath of the land surrounding Batu Lawi was gazetted in 1997 as "protected forest," a misnomer for land that can be assigned for logging whenever the government so decides. Logging generated almost $1 billion in revenue last year in a state with only 2 million inhabitants. With such huge sums at stake, bitter disputes?and occasional bloodshed?are inevitable...
...obsessed buffoon on "Kielbasa" to a lonely Don Juan rock star on "The Road" (the latter has been praised for its veracity by no less an expert than Dave Grohl, of Nirvana and Foo Fighters, who contributes drumming on the record.) He also manages to parody a swath of celebrated musicians by incorporating their stylistic trademarks into his songs: Joni Mitchell's upward swoop, the keening harmonies of Crosby, Stills and Nash, and, on an slow, instructional song whose title is too crude to reproduce here, the dulcet phrasings of James Taylor. The listener has not acquired an intimacy with...