The folding operation initiated cracks in the coating, and the resulting increase in oxygen permeability was greater in the rougher substrates.
Or so we thought, until December 2005, when the New York Times exposed a massive, warrantless domestic wiretapping and data-mining operation initiated at President Bush's behest through the National Security Agency NSAand and with the cooperation of numerous private telecommunications firms.
The Argentine forces are resisting intense shelling from British naval units and machine-gun fire from the air, observing the highest morale and fighting capacity, which is making the operation initiated by the attacking forces very difficult.
A years-long investigation by the Associated Press alleged in extensive detail that Robert Levinson, who disappeared from an Iranian island resort in 2007, had been involved in an extraordinarily unusual intelligence operation initiated by three CIA analysts who did not officially have the power to launch such operations.
She had also been kidnapped in Bangkok, four-and-a-half months pregnant, in an operation initiated by MI6 agents, before being tightly taped to a stretcher by three Americans for a 17-hour flight to Muammar Gaddafi's prisons in Libya.
The nonbinding resolution, promoted by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a lobbying group, would not authorize any specific action, but it would increase political pressure on Mr. Obama by putting Congress on record as backing a military operation initiated by Israel at a time of Israel's choosing.
This operation, initiated by our corporate investment fund Orange Digital Ventures, is fully aligned with our strategic plan, Essentiels2020, particularly with regards to our ambition to reinvent customer service, develop the digital channels and services offered to customers as well as our ambition to develop our activities in Africa and the Middle East.
With a population of about 350,000 people, Amara is smaller than Basra and the sites of other operations initiated by Mr. Maliki: the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, in Baghdad, and Mosul.
Although operations initiated last winter in southwestern Helmand province will continue, and new troop deployments are scheduled this year for northern and eastern Afghanistan, little else will matter if the news from Kandahar is not good.
Inspired leaks and murky sting operations initiated by party leaders have meant that most of the party's dirty linen has been washed in public.
