And it is true, when I go home, I do not turn on the TV, because the difference between what you hear on the TV and what you feel on the ground is night and day.
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McChrystal has not been asked to testify before Congress about Afghanistan, about what the facts are on the ground, what is doable, what is desirable, how the war can be continued, and how it can end.
The significance of this meeting will depend on what now happens on the ground, our correspondent adds.
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It will allow managers and clinicians of the new hospitals to get on with what really matters on the ground.
And, if that's the argument, then on what moral high ground do Latinos stand to also push -- as we should -- for Latino actors and actresses to be considered for generic and mainstream roles that could have gone to white actors?
"The test of the authority exercised on the ground by the Palestinian Authority is now, and we will have to judge what is happening on the ground, " said Larsen.
Obviously there's a set of criteria that people can look at before they give their money on how much is spent on overhead, how much goes to what is needed on the ground.
Increasingly, I notice the gap between what is said publicly - and what happens on the ground.
Mr. PERLE: I don't think it matters much in terms of what happens on the ground in Iraq.
But such firms still do not want to concede ground on what they see as a matter of scientific principle.
We want to hear from them about the situation on the ground, what their plans are, what their recommendations are.
After all, if the bad guys are on the run without risking legions of boots on the ground, what's not to like?
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However, judging by what businesses on the ground in China are telling the local press, the yuan is slowly becoming an even bigger culprit.
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Although these data will not be as accurate as those taken on the ground, what they lack in precision will be more than made up for in coverage.
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He was able to show everything about flights, how long they were delayed on the ground, what route they took geographically, how the routes over the last 90 days of that same airplane compared with weather systems.
And since these pleas have fallen on deaf ears, US officials are becoming rather less reticent on commenting on what they have seen of Russian activities on the ground.
So this is in direct response to what's going on with respect to boots on the ground and also in terms of what people are hearing back home in their districts.
Did the drug giant get so big it couldn't see what was happening on the ground?
My job is to recognize what the reality on the ground is and adapt to it.
"The officers, having compared the website to what they saw on the ground, were concerned, " Mr Gibney said.
Even knowing those facts before we departed, what we found on the ground in West Africa astonished us.
"There is often a disconnect between election polls and what is happening on the ground, " says Dr Rao.
Imagery has been impeded by some bad weather which also means there is less than perfect knowledge about what is happening on the ground.
He hopes the film will help government officials understand what is happening on the ground, even if just a minority of them take any action.
By the time they do, it might be too late to get in on the ground floor of what could be a big gainer in future years.
Seeing what is happening on the ground in the mismatched places could lead to more reliable estimates in future, and possibly to some interesting science as well.
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But it goes to show that the reports the vice president was talking about getting from his military commanders, not necessarily what the troops on the ground are seeing.
So what you have to do is go see if there is a fire and the best way to do that is to look inside your hospital, get on the ground, see what's happening to patients, and also see what did happen to patients who've died to see if it could have been done better.
"We cannot call what's happening on the ground a full cease-fire, " he told reporters.
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