In real life, outlying events occur more often than the bell curve suggests.
Moreover, people living in outlying urban areas say the Taliban, far from being repelled by the prospect of an allied surge, are massing as never before.
Bogota is to get a new 212-strong anti-terrorism police squad, and more than 30 new police posts in outlying suburbs.
The road less travelled Basle brush Calming the waters Germany's alien mutuals Tensions under the table Promises, promises ReprintsDG's Mr Thiemann has been instrumental in centralising the mutual banks' asset-management, payments and securities businesses, which should boost efficiency and reduce problems at outlying banks.
Like a force of nature, tax bills gather momentum in outlying committees, change shape as they approach the floor of the House or Senate, then hit the statute books with unintended and often damaging results.Just such a bill is now about to become law.
In the red-light district, women are constantly arriving from outlying regions.
A local woman said she preferred living in Kroo Bay where she could trade than in outlying areas with better sanitation.
Recent local elections suggest strength in a heavily urban population: in Male, the crowded capital, and Addu, the emerging second city.His three rivals, by contrast, rely more on votes corralled by chiefs on outlying atolls, mainly from the older and less educated.
Like a slice of Swiss cheese, each number has holes, but put several of them together and you get something solid.Modelling is not going away; indeed, number-crunchers who are devising new ways to protect investors from outlying fat-tail risks are gaining influence.
But under pressure from the government to stop outlying towns from falling to the Taliban, the force was parcelled out into "platoon houses" that came under severe attack.
Since President Chen took office, it has installed less advanced subsonic anti-ship missiles on outlying islands that could also hit the mainland.
