Bankruptcy laws will protect the company from legal action while it continues operations and reorganizes its finances.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

They also keep watch on the American state of Hawaii from an operations center near Honolulu.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

It sought protection from its creditors while continuing operations.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

And number two because of the inevitable collateral damage that occurs from even the most carefully planned and skillfully executed military operations,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

U.S.officials have largely refrained from publicly speaking about the operations, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates said earlier this year there are no plans to stop them.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The U.S.presence,Mr.Obama said, will shift from military to civilian leadership, with a focused mission of training Iraqi forces, counter-terrorism operations, and protecting U.S.civilian and diplomatic personnel.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

Eikenberry and McChrystal stressed the long-term nature of the U.S.commitment to the people of Afghanistan, long after the transition of combat operations from coalition to Afghan forces begins in 2011.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

The alleged use of special operations troops in the raid could signal a shift away from the controversial U.S.tactic of relying on long-range missile assaults to take out terrorist targets.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

The amended law bans the import of wood products from illegal logging operations, and threatens U.S.companies that violate the law with stiff fines,jail time, and confiscation of their illicitly-traded timber or forest products.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Paul Pillar,a former senior CIA intelligence officer now with Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, favors a shift away from direct combat operations to a concentration on training Afghanistan's army and police, and economic development.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

That same Quinnipiac poll also found that by a margin of 59 to 34 percent, Americans believe that preventing terrorists from using Afghanistan as a base of operations is still a worthwhile goal for the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

"But I do think that in general we have seen a shift from, for lack of a better term, professionalized terrorist operations to those that are conducted by not exactly amateurs, but folks with less training and less capability generally, technical capability."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

In its overview, GAO said the Office of Cuba Broadcasting lacks a formal strategic plan to guide decision-making on its funding and operations, including a proposal to reduce TV Mart newscasts from two 30 minute evening programs to five minute news updates every half hour.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

One of the things that a lot of observers have been concerned about is the fact that there could be a change in tactics away from the kind of spectacular and very difficult operations to conduct to operations that could be launched in far greater numbers and might have less individual impact but which in the aggregate could sow a great deal of terror.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05