Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Alan Greenspan called Washington fiscal policy a "blunt instrument," for softening recessions - well, Washington fiscal policymaking doesn't get much blunter than this. Tuesday - twelve weeks to the day after the Sept. 11 attacks and nine since lawmakers promised to act on an economic stimulus package "deliberately but with dispatch" - three members from the House and three from the Senate finally got around a table to try and get something on George W. Bush's desk by, say, Christmas...
...helm, the council has experienced what has likely been its most whirlwind semester ever. After racking up so many victories, including moving the curfew for parties in House public spaces to 2 a.m., organizing Fallfest in the Quad, helping to stage a sold-out concert with the band Dispatch, building a website to help students to find the best deals on books and awarding the first-ever Marquand Prize for superior advising—some council members are wondering what is left to be done...
...well known for founding the Concert Commission, which has brought popular bands including Dispatch to Harvard, has more council experience than Bonner, who did not win election to the body this year...
...Afghanistan to stage special-ops search-and-destroy missions alongside the Pashtun in the south and to secure humanitarian supply lines in the north. But American military planners remained leery of sending ground troops into the caves to root out the enemy in person. They would prefer to dispatch their far more experienced Afghan proxies to the enemy lairs if entry becomes necessary. Caves are strewn with buried mines and trip-wire grenades set to kill intruders...
...aircraft still circled overhead, air strikes against the Taliban-held area of the fort ceased last night, reports Perry. It was difficult to tell how long the Taliban would continue to hold out. "We're being told to get out of here," Perry said at the end of his dispatch...