Word: upping
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The popular "hurry up and wait" quip was funny when we arrived last night at midnight; it is already a meaningless hash of a clich?.? Processing tasks generally take about 15 minutes, and occur at the rate of perhaps three a day. Today was the issuing of Army t-shirts...
?The tension between perpetual boredom and perpetual readiness is purportedly a skill they teach us, a horrible patience.?But it is just as often apparent that a mix-up or a missed assignment has occurred at the hand of some sergeant?or other, and no one ever seems in any...
Grumbling is constant. Someone in the 20th Battalion has gone AWOL earlier in the day. And across from me a private, who is about to go home for a week because his mother died, is staring up at the underside of the bunk above and reading whatever someone has scribbled...
Call out the medics! The issue of health care is shaping up to be the bloody main battleground between Democratic presidential candidates Al Gore and Bill Bradley. On Monday Bradley, in a speech to the American Public Health Association, outlined his proposal to blanket 95 percent of the population with...
"In the past, the difference between a $250 million deficit and a $273 million deficit didn't matter," says TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson. "The two sides would just raid Social Security. But the Republicans have drawn a line in the sand with spending caps, and Clinton has gone along...