ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An unusually powerful American delegation arrived here on Thursday to deliver the starkest warning yet to Pakistan, according to a senior American official: that the United States would act unilaterally if necessary to attack extremist groups that use the country as a haven to kill Americans.
The unusually warm American winter has helped by reducing the demand for heating oil.
If there is a particular character to the 1986 roster, it's in the unusually strong American presence.
Unusually, an American writer, Tarell Alvin McCraney (In the Red and Brown Water / The Brothers Size), picked up the £10,000 cheque as most promising playwright.
Yes, that Domonique — Domonique Williams, the unusually dogged American voter who hopped a plane from Washington to Boston in hopes of getting to the polls on Tuesday after her absentee ballot didn't show up in time.
Mr. Panetta was accompanied by an unusually heavyweight American delegation that included the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey; Adm. Samuel J. Locklear, the commander of the United States Pacific Command; and William J. Burns, deputy secretary of state.
WASHINGTON — The powerful bombs concealed inside cargo packages and destined for the United States were expertly constructed and unusually sophisticated, American officials said Saturday, further evidence that Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen is steadily improving its abilities to strike on American soil.
And, unusually among American academics, he practises a beautifully pared-down prose style, with little pretention and none of the hyperbole that afflicts so many boxing writers.
FINAL TAKE Reader's Digest, citing the book "Unusually Stupid Americans," by Kathryn and Ross Petras, has compiled a list of business deductions people have tried to claim.
