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...force, which will be equipped with small arms and armored personnel carriers. The other 7,000 would come from the ranks of P.L.O. guerrillas now camped in several Middle Eastern countries. For the past two weeks, two senior P.L.O. officers have been in the Gaza Strip doing the groundwork for the force's deployment in cooperation with the Israeli army...
...this case you have to do an awful lot of research on how the virus works and how it infects the host to really build the groundwork for trying to make an effective vaccine," says Fields...
...three high-tech heroes wish they had moved even faster, because so far the trail has been cold. "It took us a week or so to really get started," French says. "All of this should have happened in the first few hours." Even so, the three have laid the groundwork for lightning-fast searches in the future. At some point, ordinary citizens linked by nothing but goodwill and a keyboard will be able to check nationwide bulletin boards devoted to cases of missing children. Toward that end, French is feeding a national directory of & fax numbers into a permanent database...
President Clinton made a passionate appeal to a joint session of Congress last week as he laid the groundwork for rebuilding the nation's health-care system and guaranteeing coverage for every American. The President finessed the financing details but did say his plan would be funded in part by increased cigarette taxes and a surtax paid by self-insuring companies. Days earlier, Senator Daniel Moynihan, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, had labeled the Administration's hope of financing the plan mainly by means of Medicare and Medicaid cuts "a fantasy...
Although many professors say the groundwork of last Monday's settlement is the most auspicious step they have seen in many years, they were quick to add that there are many technicalities which lie ahead for both the Israelis and Palestinians...