Until recently, in several armies around the world, a mobile brothel service was attached to the army as an auxiliary unit, especially attached to combat units on long-term deployments abroad.

Unearned revenue, the portion of sales Microsoft sets aside to reflect the long-term deployment of many of its products, grew to $3.13 billion in the quarter, up $245 million from a year ago.

Administration officials said the President had not wavered in his opposition to a long-term deployment of troops in the Balkans.

Squadron deployed to SAC airfields in England, and also to Andersen AFB, Guam on long-term deployments in the 1950s.

Later, Mr. Bush modified his remarks to say that he did not expect there to be a "significant" long-term deployment of American ground forces in the region.

But Persian Gulf states have long been reluctant to accept the long-term deployment of American troops on their soil.

They were never intended for long-term deployment like this.

The Shelf and Slope Experimental Taphonomy Initiative is the first long-term large-scale deployment and re-collection of organism remains on the sea floor.

But with the Army stretched today by long-term deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, a growing percentage of new soldiers are in combat zones within 30 days of being assigned to a unit, Army officials say.

To depend entirely on exiles and American administrators would undoubtedly take years, cost billions of dollars and require the long-term deployment of thousands of occupation troops.