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This war of attrition ended in 1739, when agreement was reached between the two sides.
Ron Ben-Ishai, Yediot Aharanot 's military analyst, said three factors are threatening stability in the Middle East: the trauma in the Jordanian regime, the war of attrition the United States is waging against Saddam Hussein, and the lack of political stability in Israel.
Cannon tabulated an attrition rate of 1.5% for new meanings and new items originally admitted to the Merriam Addenda Sections which were cumulatively included in reprints of Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language (1961) at five-year intervals in the 1966-81 period, but then were excluded from Merriam's 9,000 Words (1983).
The conventional wisdom, distilled last week by the Los Angeles Times , is that Saddam is shrewdly provoking the allies and that they're taking the bait, engaging in a "war of attrition" that will "keep world attention focused" on Iraq and leave the United States "looking like a bully."
A high attrition rate can be a major threat to validity in a study.