In the second world war his knowledge of them had saved him from deploying with the marines.

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He set aside his prejudice only during the second world war when his knowledge of the desert was put at the disposal of the British fighting the Germans and Italians in North Africa.

ECONOMIST: Th��odore Monod

They're accused of having come here without a lot of knowledge and using their presuppositions about this war to inform the commentary that they then release to the public.

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The post-war expansion of university science was based on the assumption that to invest in knowledge was to invest in growth.

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Using their extensive knowledge of top-secret Soviet research projects during the cold war, they tried to find those with commercial potential.

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Another MI5 officer said none of de Wohl's predictions had come true, apart from his forecast of Italy's entry into the war, which he made when it was "quite patent to anybody with the slightest knowledge of international affairs".

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Above all, it involved an intimate knowledge of the enemy which perhaps only an African commander can muster in this sort of war.

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But he also said that many of the people he interviewed did say it was entirely possible that other Iraqi officials did have that kind of knowledge, which underlines what was a real problem for Iraq in the planning for the war, which is that Saddam didn't trust anyone, and he made sure that no one had a complete picture of what was happening.

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