"The National Intelligence Estimate's updated judgments show that our strategy has improved the security environment in Iraq but that we still face very tough challenges ahead," spokesman Gordon Johndroe said in Crawford, Texas, where President George W. Bush was vacationing. The intelligence estim...
To many, these are indicators of an unsustainable economic boom. Indeed, the US Federal Reserve has raised rates to slow down growth and inflation, and the first estimate of second-quarter GDP, published on July 28, shows a decline o...
National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program The U.S. government’s latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) has concluded that Iran froze its active efforts to manufacture nuclear weapons in 2003, and will not have such a capability until at least 2012. While the NIE ...
The article discusses the National Intelligence Estimate's that recently determined that Tehran stopped its efforts to create nuclear weapons in 2003, together with the substantial drop in Iranian activity in Iraq has made favorable conditions for the US to conduct direct negotiations with Iran on ...
. The purpose of this analysis is to provide a general documentation of facies transitions within the Late Proterozoic through Lower Cambrian rocks in order to provide an estimate of material properties (via rock type, grain size, and bedding characteristics) for specific hydrogeologic units to be ...
The Federal Reserve lifted its forecast for the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, so-called core prices excluding volatile food and energy items next year to 2.5%, up from 2.2% projected in September. That estimate showed a decline in prices compared to the projected 2.8% at the end of...
Hospital director Suhaila Tarazi and Episcopal Church officials that run al-Ahli could only estimate that the toll was “in the hundreds” and refrained from giving an exact number. Mohammed Abu Selmia, general director of Shifa Hospital where all the wounded and dead were transferred following ...
However, football players may underestimate their risk of injury owing to a combination of known tendencies: men, the main participants in football, perceive lower levels of risk than women7; individuals in general estimate their personal risk as less than that of the typical person8; people who...
estimate, for example, that at least 32 million US Twitter users were potentially exposed to posts from Russia-sponsored accounts in the eight months leading up to the 2016 election. Facebook has estimated, by comparison, that 126 million users had the potential to view Russian state-sponsored ...
And if that optimistic estimate is better than your estimate of the quality of the meal you’ll get elsewhere, then you should try the new place. But if you’re pretty confident you’re going to get a great meal elsewhere, then you don’t even need to do that. So that algorithm is...