Word: year-and-a-half
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...time before Iraqi forces are going to be able to take full responsibility for security. But that's a matter of months and months and months. It would not have made a difference if we have seven or nine months. This is a matter of a year, a year-and-a-half ? I don't know how long it's going to take, but it's going to take some time...
...there is one thing I have learned in the past year-and-a-half it’s that above all Faculty members hate to be embarrassed. You’ve got to indulge them so they don’t back out and just not offer the Core course,” he said...
...meager effort when it last intervened there. That was in 1994, when 20,000 U.S. troops restored Aristide to power after his first presidency had been aborted by a brutal military coup three years earlier. Says retired U.S. Army Lieut. General Joseph Kinzer, who headed 6,000 U.N. troops in Haiti in 1995-96: "The U.S. had a year-and-a-half plan for a 10-year operation...
Some at Harvard have taken a particular interest in this issue recently, as a Harvard alum has been detained in China for more than a year-and-a-half...
...push Wen to release Yang Jianli, a 1995 graduate of the Kennedy School of Government, now languishing in a Chinese prison. Yang is an unapologetic democracy activist, and the Chinese authorities threw dubious espionage charges his way after he entered the country with fake papers a year-and-a-half ago. And even though Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and a number of other Washington politicians have called for Yang’s release—including forceful letters from members of Congress sent to President Bush and Premier Wen last week—Summers has so far kept...