Russians control that territory to this day.Now Washington is alive with politicians suggesting fierce policies that might cow Mr Putin this time round.
The sisters are in the vortex of a fierce public policy debate.
Now Mr. Greenspan is wading into the most fierce economic policy debate in Washington — what to do with the tax cuts adopted, in large part because of his implicit backing, under President George W. Bush — with a position not only contrary to Republican orthodoxy, but decidedly to the left of President Obama.
The deal, the first of its kind, appears to give KaZaA a new ally in the fierce legal and policy debate that has pitted record companies against KaZaA and similar services, including Napster.
The deal, the first of its kind, appears to give KaZaA a new ally in the fierce legal and policy debate that has pitted the record companies against KaZaA and similar services, including their renowned -- but now dead -- predecessor, Napster.
The war Colonel Jones is fighting is, of course, the counterinsurgency war that Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, and Gen. David H. Petraeus, regional commander of the U.S. military, urged President Obama to adopt during the fierce and protracted policy debate over Afghan strategy last year.
He is a keen advocate of contracting out the supervision of thousands of low-risk offenders sentenced to unpaid community work to private security firms or not-for-profit agencies, and is a fierce critic of policy makers who he feels have failed to fight back against media claims that any sanction falling short of prison means offenders are "getting away with it".
The competition for recruiting talented staff in Silicon Valley is fierce and the policy may help technology giants attract and retain the best candidates.
Public ire has grown so fierce that the policy's implementation has even been delayed after the fishing companies contracted to set the lines received death threats and backed out.
