Word: units
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sketches were not always on target. To no avail, one set of Pentagon planners consulted psychics to pinpoint where Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was staying before U.S. warplanes attacked Libya in 1986. Another intelligence unit asked psychics to picture where an agent suspected of being a double stashed the money he made spying for the other side. (They could not say.) "Sometimes it seems that these people are right on," says Jessica Utts, a statistician at the University of California at Davis who contributed to the CIA study. "But nobody knows when those times come...
...group, which represents about 700 teaching assistants, said the university's longstanding refusal to negotiate with it as a collective bargaining unit left members with little recourse...
Harvard students and affiliates who require overnight treatment during the weeks Stillman Infirmary is closed will be sent to the Inpatient Unit at MIT's infirmary...
...Inpatient Unit has 18 beds, which should be able to handle both MIT and Harvard cases, according to Head Nurse of the Inpatient Unit Mary J. Avelino...
...Pentagon likes to say that if its forces are attacked, they will prove themselves the meanest dog in town. That might be true if one armed unit confronts another, but, says Andrew Krepinevich, a retired officer who heads the Defense Budget Project in Washington, the analogy works only for dogfights. "Those who might target U.S. forces," he says, "might compete not as dogs but as fleas." In other words, sniping, ambushes, car bombs and other kinds of terrorism do not offer clear targets for U.S. retaliation...