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  • In this, Wes Clark points out how grown-ups pursue multi-pronged plans of attack on their enemies, details how the Administration failed to do so, and how those compounding failures have led us to the point where we may have no alternative to pulling out, not from loss of nerve but because, strategically, there's not much more we can do with the manpower available, and that manpower's in a bad spot.

    A Little Thing We Call Realism Rogers 2005

  • In this, Wes Clark points out how grown-ups pursue multi-pronged plans of attack on their enemies, details how the Administration failed to do so, and how those compounding failures have led us to the point where we may have no alternative to pulling out, not from loss of nerve but because, strategically, there's not much more we can do with the manpower available, and that manpower's in a bad spot.

    Archive 2005-08-21 Rogers 2005

  • "I was made to understand that the on-site training course organised today is aimed to develop the department's manpower's skills by learning the latest technologies used in the region's production of good quality freshwater prawn fries," said Hjh Hasnah.

    Brudirect News1 2009

  • "I don't have financial power, but - manpower's the most important."

    Baka Updates Manga 2008

  • i finally took a good look at the statistics at the ministry of manpower's website. it seems that people with my education have an unemployment rate of 5-45\% last year. for my particular specialisation, it's about 20\%. the national average for unemployment is 2. 3\%. the numbers sound even more absurd a few years back, when i just got out of the army.

    Murmurs.com 2008

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