Word: woulds
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...quick victory against guerrilla forces in the mountains extremely unlikely, and even Grozny is proving far more resilient - and costly in terms of Russian casualties - than Russian military boasts allowed for. Even if they risk the heavy losses of an all-out assault on the Chechen capital, its capture would be primarily a symbolic victory - the bulk of the Chechen forces have retreated into the mountains to fight another...
...country's high flood-death toll, but they may not like his solutions. Chavez blamed the "criminal irresponsibility" of previous governments for the estimated 50,000 deaths from last week's floods, citing the widespread construction of illegal shantytowns on hillsides. The left-leaning populist president warned that there would be no rebuilding of some of the worst-hit neighborhoods, and that people would be forbidden from building in areas vulnerable to mudslides. And while the former paratrooper has earned top marks for his hands-on supervision of relief efforts, his approach to rebuilding the country in the wake...
...program. "This answers Bradley's big criticism of Gore, that he's not bold enough," says TIME Washington correspondent John F. Dickerson. Bradley's proposal, which covers a wide range of services, including child and health care, has been criticized for its vagueness as to how exactly the money would be divided. Now Gore has trumped him both in scale and in detail...
...playing for a New York team: "I would retire first. It's the most hectic, nerve-racking city. Imagine having to take the 7 train to the ballpark, looking like you're [riding through] Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing...
...started with a patent. In 1997 Amazon introduced a feature on its web site called 1-Click shopping. The idea was that the site would remember your address and billing information from prior purchases so that you wouldn't have to re-enter them every time you bought something. It was a pretty good idea, good enough that Amazon applied for, and received, a patent on it. MORE...