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...flushed Hannan and his fighters from their hideout in the mountains of north Kandahar. According to reports of the battle, which involved coalition special-ops troops, as many as 30 Taliban fighters have been killed out of an estimated force of 165. Turner and his company are assigned to wait for the Taliban when they spill out of the ravines. It's a tall order: there are a dozen draws leading out of the mountain labyrinth, and Turner has no way of knowing which escape route Hannan and his men might choose...
...distribution prices for all coursepacks. The PMD should submit sample article lists from this year’s coursepacks to multiple printers and distributors. And as it calculates the best option, it should weight convenience far less than price. We suspect every student at Harvard would be willing to wait a week for a coursepack to be shipped (while reading PDFs online) in exchange for a 65 percent cost reduction...
...course, just passing on rules is not all there is to keeping things running. You have to enforce them too. Space deadlines are uncompromising things: miss a launch window when you're trying to send a probe to Mars, and you will have to wait two years until the planets line up properly again. The danger is that this kind of pressure can cloud the judgment of even the best project managers, leading them to rush as time grows short. For that reason, before a single bit of metal is cut on any spacecraft, J.P.L. bosses draw up what they...
Garcetti had wanted to see Cuba for years, but it wasn't until after he left the D.A.'s office that he found the time to travel there. The journey was worth the wait. His new volume is rich with grainy photos of dancers rehearsing under poor conditions, swathed in tropical shadows, exposing strong body language and facial expressions that are at once haunting and joyful, often within the same frame."Wow, wow, wow!" says Garcetti with a smile, recalling the first day on the island when he and his wife encountered an energetic Afro-Cuban dance troupe marching down...
When the rally reached Wigglesworth Hall, the Allied Security manager was not in his office. The security guards pledged to wait until he returned, chanting slogans like, “No respect, no peace,” in Spanish and English...