Word: operationalize
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On any listing of subjects likely to arouse passion, accounting ordinarily might come in dead last. But nothing about the Persian Gulf crisis is ordinary, and some angry national and international arguments are breaking out about what, at least in part, are questions of accounting: How much more will the...
The increased cost, of course, largely represents President Bush's decision to roughly double the size of the U.S. force in the gulf area. Nonetheless, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has raised its estimate of the extra costs of Operation Desert Shield from an initial $7 billion to only $12...
This controversy, however, masks a far more vital point. Even if the U.S. by New Year's Eve collects every last cent pledged by allies, that amount is grossly insufficient, particularly from two such economic powerhouses as Germany and Japan. Moreover, few allies have pledged any money beyond Jan. 1...
[TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: Dept. of Defense}]CAPTION: COSTLY OPERATION
The young Americans wait for their presents in the desert. They come addressed to Operation Desert Shield, APO New York, 09848-0006. They are parcels of home shipped into a zone that is nearly as alien and inhospitable as space -- temperatures unnatural, planet sand-colored to the horizon, days blinding...