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Sen. Jack Reed D., R.I., who sits on both the Senate's banking and armed-forces committees, asked the U.S. attorney general to look into the matter.
Lenders Step Up Reviews of Military Foreclosure Practices David Benoit 2011
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British media reported that the defense ministry employee and the armed-forces official are a married couple.
Arrests Intensify News Corp.'s U.K. Crisis Jeanne Whalen 2012
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NEW DELHI—Indian authorities will within days curtail controversial special powers that have shielded Indian armed-forces personnel from prosecution while serving in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, a law that human-rights groups say has been used to cover up abuses.
India Curbs Army Impunity Laws in Kashmir Tom Wright 2011
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Thierry Burkhard, the French armed-forces spokesman.
France Says It Armed Opposition in Libya Inti Landauro 2011
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In fact, Mr. Bush never took an IQ test, but he did take the SAT and the armed-forces qualification test.
Burying the Hatchet James Q. Wilson 2011
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Thierry Burkhard, the French armed-forces spokesman.
France Says It Armed Opposition in Libya Inti Landauro 2011
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Smarting from the defeat, Lt. Gen. Mohammed al-Issawi, a three-star general in charge of the offensive, penned a blistering eight-page memo on April 26 to Libya's armed-forces chief.
Inside a Flawed Spy Machine as Gadhafi's Rule Crumbled Charles Levinson 2011
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The cabinet is stacked with defense and armed-forces veterans who are sure that a show of force will finish off the country's Muslim tormentors.
Bibi Is The New Bush 2010
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From 1984 to 2009, 737 suicides occurred among U.K. regular armed-forces personnel: 718 among males, and 19 among females.
Soldiers' Suicide Rate Tied to Access to Problems at Home 2010
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The armed-forces newspaper even reported that aboard the ship to England, tickets to WAAC parties were so valued that they were "accepted as legal tender in high stakes craps games."
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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