Major league general managers discussed the issue during their meetings in November and MLB presented several ideas at baseball's winter meetings only weeks later.

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Major-General Patrick Cordingley, who commanded a British armoured brigade during the Gulf War, told a meeting in London recently that Saddam Hussein faced "inevitable consequences" if he did not allow the weapons inspectors in.

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During the balance of her tenure there as the first female president of a major operating unit in General Dynamics history, she quadrupled the size of GD Armaments while sustaining steady profitability.

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Relations between the two parties have been tense ever since the Congress made major inroads in this politically crucial state - Uttar Pradesh has 80 MPs in the Indian parliament - during recent general elections.

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General Jim Mattis in Hillah, he said that the two groups who fought most aggressively during the major combat operations were the Fedayeen Saddam -- homegrown thugs with a cult-like attachment to Saddam -- and foreign fighters, principally from other Arab countries.

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