grouping, conscripts, proliferation, G20

Social service providers fear military conscription cuts

The German government's plans to cut military conscription to six months
will also apply to those who opt to do community service instead. Community
groups warn of exploding costs and cuts to social services.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew2djsI44va89pI1



在二十國集團(Group of 20, 簡稱G20)峰會即將在倫敦召開之際﹐中國央行從週一以來已四次發表文章。中國央行在這篇文章中提到了當前金融危機引發的問題以及必要的應對措施。

Will Proliferating App Stores Lead To Confusion ...
Washington Post - United States
Pretty much everyone is looking to launch one: Palm, RIM, Nokia, Google, Samsung and Microsoft have all announced plans, not to mention the app stores ...



FAS - safety issues at nuclear storage depots

A grouping of US scientists critical of nuclear proliferation has
claimed that an internal US Air Force investigation has found that
nuclear weapon storage sites in Europe fail to meet safety standards
set by the Pentagon. On its Internet site, the Federation of
American Scientists, which was set up shortly after World War Two,
estimates that between 200 and 350 nuclear bombs are still stored in
underground vaults under US guard at airbases in Belgium, the
Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Britain and Turkey. The federation
cites problems with fencing and inconsistencies in personnel,
including the use of conscripts to guard weapons with as little as
nine months active duty experience.


conscription
n.

1. Compulsory enrollment, especially for the armed forces; draft.
2. A monetary payment exacted by a government in wartime.

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group (SET) Show phonetics
noun [C]
a number of people or things that are put together or considered as a unit:
I'm meeting a group of friends for dinner tonight.
The car was parked near a small group of trees.
She showed me another group of pictures, this time of children playing.

group Show phonetics
verb [I or T; + adverb or preposition]
to form a group or put people or things into a group:
We all grouped together round the bride for a family photograph.
I grouped the children according to age.
The books were grouped by size.

grouping Show phonetics
noun [C]
several people or things when they have been arranged into a group or are being considered as a group:
There exist two clearly defined political groupings in the country - the establishment and the dissidents.

proliferation was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below.

• proliferate

proliferate Show phonetics
verb [I] FORMAL
to increase greatly and suddenly in number:
Small businesses have proliferated in the last ten years.

proliferation Show phonetics
noun [U] FORMAL
The past two years have seen the proliferation of TV channels.


non-proliferation Hide phonetics
noun [U]
the limitation of the spread and/or amount of something, especially nuclear or chemical weapons:
a non-proliferation treaty

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the draft (MILITARY) MAINLY US noun [S] (UK conscription)
the system of ordering people by law to join the armed forces:
He avoided the draft because of a foot injury.

draft MAINLY US Hide phonetics
verb [T usually passive] (UK conscript)
He was drafted (into the army) at eighteen.

draftee Hide phonetics
noun [C] US
a person who has been ordered by law to join the armed forces