Mr. WILLIAM BRATTON (Police Chief, LAPD): As well as to review all that occurred here this afternoon in terms of use a force by the Los Angeles Police Department, its members, and the use of force by some elements of the crowd.

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The new guidance does permit the DOD to take additional risk by reducing those elements of the force structure that are deemed less necessary.

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" Found on page six, "DoD will manage the force in ways that protect its ability to regenerate capabilities that might be needed to meet future, unforeseen demands, maintaining intellectual capital and rank structure that could be called upon to expand key elements of the force.

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It requires continuous, high-speed communication among all elements of a fighting force so that information can be shared instantaneously.

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It could obtain the guarantee thus far not provided by the United States or Britain -- namely that the use of elements of the multinational force would not occur without the express approval of the Soviet Union, either through bilateral contacts or through the U.N.

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He spoke out against the bill in its current form Monday, saying the drug benefit is nothing but bait to get lawmakers to accept other elements of the bill that would force Medicare into competition with private plans, force premiums up and spell the end of Medicare in its current form.

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The question is, with most of the GOP already deeply invested in using the debt ceiling as leverage to force a spending reduction without ridding our tax code of perverse elements of corporate welfare, can they still be brought back from the brink?

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These are intended for use in flat-panel displays (in which the tips of the nanotubes are used to spray electrons on to individual phosphor elements of the screen) and atomic-force microscopes.

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In short, Russian leaders hope to control or eliminate many elements of U.S. military power in exchange for strategic force reductions they will have to make anyway.

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