Word: thrusted
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...July 2, nearly 4,000 Marines and 650 Afghan troops stormed into Helmand province in southern Afghanistan aboard helicopters and armored vehicles. But within hours, the Marines issued a statement declaring they had "not used artillery, and no bombs have been dropped from aircraft" in the offensive's opening thrust. You know a war has turned topsy-turvy when U.S. Marines brag about the weapons they're not using. (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...
...Summers era. But when Harvard’s $36.9 billion endowment plunged an unprecedented 22 percent in the four months leading up to Oct. 31, the former head of Harvard’s smallest school—with an operating budget of under $20 million—found herself thrust into the spotlight as a public figure tasked with bringing together the University’s traditionally disparate schools. Over the past few months, Faust has found herself in a communicative role, in which she has had to bring all constituents—faculty, students, staff, and alumni?...
...long ago, within just a few years of his and Richard Rogers' completion of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1977. His allegiance is to the working principles of classic Modernism, and in this case with a nod to Chicago Modernism, which he references everywhere. By its horizontal thrust the Modern Wing harks back to the Prairie-style architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. Its three adjacent bays of glass wall at the end of each floor bear trace elements of the tripartite "Chicago window" that was one of the city's early contributions to skyscraper style. And the whole...
...comes from looking at what is driving the conversation. In the early 1990s, the argument was all about covering the 37 million or so uninsured. In 2009, after much of the rhetoric on last year's campaign trail focused on the growing ranks of the uninsured, the major thrust of health-care reform centers on something that affects everyone: the staggering cost of a system that threatens to devour the rest of the economy. And as a result, political momentum may finally be on the side of health reform. (See "Five Truths About Health Care in America...
...main thrust of the wargame effort is to build on a "whole government" approach which looks for solutions to crises by calling upon a host of government agencies including the U.S. State Department, Special Operations forces (which combines units from all the servies), the intelligence community and key U.S. allies around the world. In fact, military officers from a host of countries Australia, Germany, and the U.K. attended the wargames as well. (Read a story about Russia's arms build...