Word: tente
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...Under Cornum, the hospital has been thoroughly modernized. Today's combat doctors are likely wired to e-mail and cell phones. Holcomb, who now heads the Army's Institute of Surgical Research in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, says he routinely gets an e-mail "from some doctor in a tent outside Fallujah," saying a soldier has been burned in an explosion minutes before, and is being flown by helicopter to the combat hospital in Balad. An hour later, a physician in Balad calls Holcomb, saying he's putting the patient on a plane to Germany. At that point, Holcomb...
After Dubya’s re-election victory last November, it became clear that liberal politics in this country are suffering a great deal. Those on the radical left have become utterly disempowered. The solution, it seems to me, is to have a large tent, not a small one. And there’s room in that tent for some baby-back ribs...
...members and a budget of $8.7 million, is a lifeline for war-torn women in eight countries: Afghanistan, Bosnia, Colombia, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. The organization picks up where humanitarian aid leaves off. "We work with women as they get out of the refugee tent--out of the victim stage--and help them become survivors and active citizens," Salbi says...
...plurality, into effective power depends on two things - holding together a coalition that has its own significant internal fissures, and creating an effective alliance with other parties to give it the two thirds majority of Assembly votes needed to choose the next Iraqi leadership. The UIA is a big tent created precisely to avoid splitting the Shiite vote. But the very diversity of opinion it embraces, from such large traditional Shiite parties as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the Dawa party to wild card elements such as former Pentagon favorite Ahmed Chalabi and supporters...
...upon closer inspection, people in the cities of Mosul, Ramadi and Fallujah—centers of the insurgency—weren’t surveyed. While it seems to be true that your average Iraqi appreciates the goals of the American occupation, your average Fallujan is sitting in a tent right now, waiting to return to his house in a country soon to be dominated by a competing ethnic group. Is life that much better...