With its big Army, weak government, and unpopular politicians, Iraq increasingly resembles the post-colonial states of Africa and the Arab world, which produced coup upon coup during the second half of the twentieth century.
Mr Kohl is surely thankful for effective ministers (they are not in oversupply), but not for one who gets too big for his army boots.
Having grabbed a big budget increase, the army could probably afford such a campaign.
If Hartz IV succeeds, Germany will have taken a big step towards helping its army of long-term unemployed off the dole and into work.
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The best that the Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, could offer the Russian Army on its big annual holiday was that, as he put it, "things will soon be much better than they are now".
The British army also maintained a big dairy farm, and Javed's father supplied it feedstock.
The gap was filled by outsiders, and by the army, which has big business interests.
It doesn't matter if you've won the tournament 11 times or you're a big-name team with an army of followers.
The army is arguing that big reductions in its size would lead to a collapse in morale, particularly among officers who would see their career prospects diminished.
Canada brought in the big guns -- a Navy ship and Army helicopter with engineers and supplies.
Maybe, some observers say, the judges are getting too big for their wigs precisely because they have army support.
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He is a big fan of classic sitcoms like Dad's Army and he loves cricket.
His heroic story attracted an army of fans and lucrative sponsorship deals with big corporations such as Nike and the Anheuser-Busch brewery.
She distributed low-interest credits to big media companies, and tried to make friends with the army.
Across Syria a picture is emerging of government forces holding the centre of big towns and the main roads, and the Free Syrian Army becoming increasingly active and almost controlling parts of cities like Homs and areas of the countryside.
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It is also undertaking a big reform of the Bundeswehr, which consists largely of shrinking the army from 250, 000 soldiers in 2010, when the reform began, to about 185, 000 by 2017, to save money.
The vaccine, from GlaxoSmithkline, started with research at New York University, was tested by Army researchers in the 1980s, before being picked up by Big Pharma.
Big and established players like IBM, Microsoft and EMC must contend with an endless army of feisty startups trying to redefine the game in their own interests.
This will be crucial, since the big flaw with earlier accords was that, although some fighters were taken into the army and police, others were left roaming the country.
Adenuga made his first fortune at age 26 in the 1970s by distributing lace and other materials, but he hit it big when the military regime of former President Ibrahim Babangida gave him a contract to build Army barracks.
However, first Mr Pastrana enforced the retirement of two army generals accused of collaboration with such groups, and then this week a big police operation shut down a huge drug laboratory run by the paramilitaries, capable of turning out eight tonnes of cocaine a month.
It helps explain his surprisingly strong partnership with Ehud Barak, the leader of the Labour Party (and a former army chief of staff and prime minister), trusted as the only man able to handle the big security issues.
Waller, 36, who served as a Ranger and a Chinese translator in the U.S. Army before joining Icon Advisers in Greenwood Village, Colorado in 2000, prefers gene diagnostic companies to the big pharmaceutical outfits, which he regards as being sluggish.
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