Mr Santos called it the "most resounding blow" ever delivered against the FARC, and encouraged the guerrillas' 9,000 remaining fighters to demobilise.Ironically, however, Mr Cano's passing may wind up delaying rather than expediting a negotiated end to Colombia's civil strife.
Anything from quasi-officialese ("expediting fee") to the small-time functionary's request for a "coffee" or a "drink" or "something for the weekend" casts a haze over the proceedings.
Immediately after America's declaration of independence, its government made it official policy to steal inventions from Europe, expediting the country's rise as an industrial power in the 19th century, notes Doron Ben-Atar of Fordham University in New York.
Some EU countries want Mr Tadic to take a "decisive" step on the Kosovo question perhaps by expediting the passage of Kosovars and their exports through Serbia before starting membership talks.Balkan countries struggle with many handicaps.
The World Health Organisation and a number of European governments are now talking to manufacturers about expediting the development of such a vaccine and, on May 22nd, American officials announced a $1 billion scheme with the same goal.In this section On target, finally Putting the pieces together Good game?
In 1997 it approved a huge shift of ownership from the central government to municipalities with the explicit goal of expediting privatisations.
Third, the policy lists the specific losses that will be paid, such as the loss of the boiler or machinery itself due to accident, expediting expenses, property damage liability, bodily injury liability, defense settlement and supplementary payments, business interruption, outage (interruption of service), power interruption, consequential loss due to spoilage of goods, and furnace explosion.
The trend, however, reached beyond expediting education; through innovative programming, museums sought to actively engage visitors with the collection.
Tracing and expediting are related; both involve paying attention to a shipment that is in the carrier's hands.
Despite his political differences with the ruling HDZ, he promised to support Prime Minister Kosor's goals of expediting EU membership talks and fighting corruption.
Expediting is an attempt to have a specific shipment move faster than normal through the carrier's system because it is needed immediately by the consignee.
