Word: withdrawals
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...have one question for the thousands of outraged Muslims. America kills thousands of Muslims, and you lose your head and withdraw ambassadors over a bunch of cartoons printed in a second-rate paper in a Nordic country with a population of 5 million? That's the true outrage...
...seemed like offering to help in Afghanistan would be a good way to mend fences with the U.S. over Iraq. Nato has been running the International Security Assistance Force (isaf) since 2003. The plan now is to boost isaf to 15,000 troops and allow some U.S. forces to withdraw. The expanded Nato force will add a further six provinces to the 13 in which they presently operate; set up four new Provincial Reconstruction Teams or prts (the units that try to build civil administration in local areas); take some prts over from the Americans; and move the weight...
...Both are well-suited for the sometimes ruthless work of running their party's campaign committees. Looking to knock off Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum, Schumer recruited Bob Casey, the popular, anti-abortion rights secretary of state there, and pressured an abortion rights advocate running for the seat to withdraw-angering abortion rights activists who are key donors to the party. ?The days are over when a Democratic candidate has to check off 18 politically correct boxes,? Schumer says. In a congressional race in Illinois, Emanuel recruited Tammy Duckworth, a Army major who lost both her legs in Iraq, pushing...
...resources committee and the FAS financial staff “talked through” whether to borrow annually or withdraw a lump sum and chose the latter, Campbell said, because they expected the endowment to grow faster than the interest rate on debt. University President Lawrence H. Summers told the Faculty at its meeting last week that the Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—has approved the decapitalization “in recognition of what is by the FAS an extraordinary period of growth...
...close of World War II, the Soviet Union had a huge predominance in the number of troops stationed at the edge of Western Europe. For a time, the U.S. had the advantage of nuclear weapons, but not for long. Franklin Roosevelt once assured Stalin that the U.S. would withdraw from Europe within two years after Hitler was defeated. Instead, faced with the need to protect weakened Western democracies, the U.S. would embark on the Marshall Plan, a bid to make Europeans prosperous enough fast enough to keep them from turning communist, and initiate NATO, its first transatlantic alliance since...