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...fiercely opposed by most Pashtun (the largest ethnic group). Even his Uzbek and Hazari allies in the Northern Alliance are not keen to see the Tajik Rabbani back in charge. Most Kabul residents remember his tenure as a nightmare of infighting between rival factions during which tens of thousands of Afghanis were killed. Alliance forces have already divided the capital into separate zones of control for different ethnic factions, and the northern group's internal divisions remain potentially explosive - one thousand Hazari Northern Alliance soldiers were reportedly marching on Kabul Thursday in a bid to underline their claims...
...Blewett says of his attitude adjustment. “This is what I need to do. I don’t need to worry about my form, because I know I can make the field goal—I’ve made it a thousand times. And all it comes down to is how I’m feeling about myself, how I’m feeling about where I want to kick it, and that’s where it’s going...
...Blewett says of his attitude adjustment. “This is what I need to do. I don’t need to worry about my form, because I know I can make the field goal—I’ve made it a thousand times. And all it comes down to is how I’m feeling about myself, how I’m feeling about where I want to kick it, and that’s where it’s going...
...nice to score but it definitely would have been a thousand times better to get the win,” Hodel said...
...There are some 1,400 CF6 engines in use worldwide on planes including Boeing 747s, 767s and Airbus 300s, and there are four thousand CF6-equipped airplane takeoffs each day. It's a common engine, but it has had problems. In a sternly worded report last December, the NTSB warned that the CF6 engines presented a potentially "catastrophic" threat. The NTSB recommended to the FAA that it take action, including a review of the design of the engine's high pressure turbine disc because of a number of dangerous incidents in the past few years...