At the end, a black helicopter – the XVIII Airborne Corps' deus ex machina – descended and evacuated our poor casualties, proving to the taxpayers that, like in the movie Black Hawk Down, we will never, ever leave a brave soldier behind.
At the end, a black helicopter the XVIII Airborne Corps' deus ex machina descended and evacuated our poor casualties, proving to the taxpayers that, like in the movie Black Hawk Down, we will never, ever, leave a brave soldier behind.
Yet a combination of central planning and local organisation means that even when big hurricanes hit small, poor Cuba casualties are minor and recovery is quick.
Nine cities that had been urged by Mr. Cameron to vote yes in referendums on whether to have locally elected mayors simply said no. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, said he was "really sad" about his party's poor result, a casualty of its decision to attach itself to the Conservatives.
A primary reason why the security sector is struggling is because the attrition rate is dangerously high due to poor wages, soaring casualty rates, insufficient training, and the fact that the soldiers and police are deployed away from their homes to other provinces, where they are viewed as outsiders.
European winter storms were thought to be one factor in what Berkshire called General Re's "very poor" international property-casualty segment.
In part, Berkshire said the "unsatisfactory" results "reflected the effects of inadequate rates charged in recent years as well as higher international catastrophe and large property losses". European winter storms were thought to be one factor in what Berkshire called General Re's "very poor" international property-casualty segment.
PVA Deputy Commander Han Xianchu later reported to Peng that although combat casualties had been light with only 8,500 battle casualties, the poor logistics and the exhaustion had cost the "backbone" of the Chinese forces during the Third Phase Campaign.
If he ever managed to cut off that money, it would mean an end to HIV screening, STD treatment and counseling, primarily for poor women – the real casualties of his thoughtless campaign).
Doctors had no evidence to support their hypotheses — few parents are willing to enroll their newborns in medical studies — and some insisted that colicky babies were casualties of poor parenting by overanxious mothers.
