That means selling positions that have done well and putting that money into areas that have fallen out of favor.

It moves it off the battlefield and puts it into the cities and strategic areas of the whole region.

"You expect that when you put them into high-threat areas, you will lose one occasionally," one official said.

"Bird-watching puts you into natural areas and some rough terrain - it's not an easy physical activity."

The land inhabitants were put together into several designated areas so as to re-build their villages.

"Markets change quickly and one of our keys is to adapt quickly, too, and put our resources and energy into areas where there are new problems."

Naturally, most pretesting effort should be put into areas thought likely to present problems and areas most crucial to the purposes of the survey.

Putting heavy lethal firepower into heavily populated areas.

Critics say the department is not putting enough money into areas like asthma, H.I.V. and anti-smoking programs, but some also concede that these are tough financial times.

Nieuwendyk added that Loob could "put pucks into areas, make plays, nobody else would dream of".