Word: countdowns
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Next, the Crimson, with its strong butterfliers and freshman class, looks forward to the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet on Jan. 31. Indeed, the team has posted a countdown to the meet, complete with motivational messages, in its locker room...
...countdown goes something like this: 3) IRS auditor, 2) ex-husband's new 20-year-old girlfriend, 1) dentist. The top three people we most hate...
...much for the countdown. Last week's TV news frenzy of ticking clocks, ominous slo-mo images of armies on the move and dark warnings by grave pundits as the due-date for Iraq's weapons declaration drew near has given way to an increasingly confusing spectacle. First there were those shiny gold CD-ROMs and reams and reams of documentation in Baghdad last Saturday breathlessly followed from airport to airport by 24-hour news TV crews before arriving in New York - where they were promptly snatched in a late-night swoop on UN headquarters by U.S. officials empowered...
...Although the first team of actual inspectors arrives next Monday and is expected to start visiting previously inspected sites two days later, the Dec. 8 deadline remains a moment of truth, or more correctly, the start of a countdown to a moment of truth. Some overly gung-ho reports in the U.S. media suggest that Washington will immediately cry foul if Iraq's declaration doesn't match the Bush Administration's suspicions of its WMD programs. It's not quite that simple: The inspectors are being sent back precisely to investigate any discrepancy between what Saddam says...
...Countdown to War? If Iraq rejects the latest Security Council resolution or tries to block the inspectors from the get-go, the U.S. will likely move to launch an attack as soon as it has the requisite forces in position. But assuming the inspectors are allowed to return and conduct their work unhindered, the Security Council is unlikely to hear from Blix before his 60-day report-back in early January. If Iraq's conduct to that point fails to meet UN requirements, the U.S. will likely push for action. Strategic analysts tend to agree that the window for launching...