"The Air Force aggressor acts as a hacker coming against us and we see how our defensive plan measured up, " said Lt.

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The situation is also bad because these acts disturb the normal current of life and such acts often force us to make radical decisions.

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It appears to be impossible to foresee all the twists and turns that force majeure or the acts of God may take, and they invariably turn out the disadvantage of the party to the contract whose function is to pay the money.

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In their absence, the Task Force suggested that officials attend games to identify discriminatory acts "with the aim of easing the pressure on referees and facilitating the availability of evidence, which is not always easy to obtain".

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Experts believed that tough, top-down controls would dispense with inefficiencies: Insurance companies would relentlessly cut back payments for hundreds of medical procedures, which would force hospitals, clinics and physicians to get their acts together, thereby boosting productivity and cutting costs. (Managed care's methods are close cousins to what you see in nationalized health care systems.) Because of these anticipated efficiencies, experts figured we would need fewer doctors.

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And the biggest acts are the Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds, the precision flying teams whose performances were abruptly canceled April 1, along with the Army skydiving team, military flyovers, demonstration flights and even static displays.

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It acts on its own as a defence, crisis management or stabilisation force.

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The newly-created FIFA anti-racism task force met for the first time earlier this month and proposed placing officials at matches in order to "identify potential acts of discrimination", a suggestion that will be voted on by FIFA's members later this month.

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