China was "dangerous, provocative and unjustified" in using water cannon against Philippine resupply boats in the South China Sea, says a US State Department spokesman.
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Audit Finds Problems in Cattlemen’s Spending
By WILLIAM NEUMAN
A cattle industry group improperly used marketing money, raised from ranchers and farmers, to support its lobbying arm, a review found.
Afghanistan and Pakistan Rattled by Plan for Drawdown
By SABRINA TAVERNISE and CARLOTTA GALL
Diplomats scrambled to reassure the nations at the center of President Obama’s war strategy that the U.S. would not cut and run.
Essential Meaning of label
1: a piece of paper, cloth, or similar material that is attached to something to identify or describe itThe name is prominently displayed on the label.You should read the warning label before you take any medicine.(US) a mailing label [=a piece of paper with a mailing address already printed on it]
2: a word or phrase that describes or identifies something or someoneThe word was given the label "obsolete."Some people describe him as "selfish," but he doesn't deserve that label.Once you give people labels, it's hard to see them as individuals.
3: a company that produces musical recordingsa major/independent record labelThe band has made records for/on/with several different labels in their career.
cut and run
Clear out, escape, desert, as in He wished he could just cut and run. This term originally (about 1700) meant to cut a vessel's anchor cable and make sail at once. By the mid-1800s it was being used figuratively. Charles Dickens had it in Great Expectations (1861): "I'd give a shilling if they had cut and run." Also see cut out, def. 7.
resupply
tr.v., -plied, -ply·ing, -plies.
To provide with fresh supplies, as of weapons and ammunition.
resupply re'sup·ply' n.
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