Word: field
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...ever oiled a baseball glove in February while wishing the snow would melt - or an adult who still cries every time Field of Dreams is shown on cable - knows that baseball is far more than just a game. And the U.S. government is starting to recognize that it can harness the national pastime's awesome power as a public-diplomacy tool in tricky parts of the world where traditional efforts have been met with - well, traditional results...
...London, Knox says that it would be catastrophic to lose Gandhara and other ancient civilizations that sprung up along the Indus Valley to direct threats from militants or neglect caused by the security vacuum. "Journalists can't even go there, quite apart from people who want to do field archaeology," he says of the sites near Waziristan and other war-ravaged locations. "I don't think I shall ever see those places again...
...late Senator Edward Kennedy's major accomplishments in the health care field, COBRA (the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986) enables discharged workers to stay on their employer's group health plan for up to 18 months. Unlike the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), COBRA does not require the employer to pay the cost of providing continuing coverage. Instead, it allows employees and their dependents to maintain coverage at their own expense by paying the full price of the premium plus an administration fee. The Joint Committee on Taxation, a non-partisan group focused on government finance, estimates...
...Seattle, Washington, Natasha and Andrew Freidus have two small children, ages two years and four months. Andrew lost his job in the renewable energy field and the couple went on COBRA coverage, which costs $540 with the subsidy compared the full cost of $1,506. Andrew found a job with a start-up in the renewable industry in June, but the company cannot yet afford to offer health care so the couple has continued with COBRA. Natasha says she is very happy about the COBRA subsidy extension, not only because of the cost savings, but because this means...
...Peter Bergen, an Al-Qaeda expert at the New American Foundation, says Awlaki was merely "important as an inciter to jihad, no more." Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University says it's unlikely Awlaki would have beeen involved in operational activities. "He was a cleric, not a field commander," he says. (See the effect of Al-Awlaki's sermons...