Word: echelon
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...plane hit - between the first and second stories of the Echelon building in northwest Austin, about 10 miles from downtown - one eyewitness on the ground told a local television station that there was "giant fireball about 50 feet wide." The Echelon is part of a four-building complex of office buildings set in small office park near the intersection of two busy Austin highways. The exterior of the buildings are flat, black glass that just before the crash reflected clear, blue winter skies. "It sure was hauling. It was a really speedy dive," Jerry Cullin, a pilot, told KXAN...
Akpan joins a Rapids team that is eager to enter the upper echelon of MLS clubs. Colorado has narrowly missed the playoffs in each of their last three seasons, but their off-season transactions (and talent on the offensive side of the ball) could beckon a new era of success...
...capable of being deployed to fight effectively alongside NATO forces, much less on their own. The desertion rate of troops trained in the ANA stands at 20% - and is reportedly even higher among forces deployed in combat. Afghan field officers are in short supply, and the top echelon of the officer corps is dominated by ethnic Tajiks who are often viewed with suspicion by Pashtuns, the country's largest ethnic group and the one in which the Taliban is based. And the recent killing of five British soldiers by an Afghan policeman they had been mentoring, who then...
...historical distrust of the West, a strong guarantee for receiving the fuel for the Tehran reactor needs to be given." Given that the newspaper is a staunch supporter of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, this counter-offer would seem to have the backing of the upper echelon of the Islamic Republic. (See pictures of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visiting New York...
...Crimson indicated in Friday’s Around the Ivies column, Harvard football couldn’t rest on its laurels Saturday against Columbia. In the early weeks of the season, the Lions embarrassed their opponents and positioned themselves in the Ancient Eight’s upper echelon. This weekend, the Crimson answered the call...