What better, then, than to project Afghanistan as a volatile place, hostile to Americans?

"Assets in less volatile places in the world are valued more highly," she explained.

Union officials had noted there were staffing cuts previously at the prison, which they feel led to the prison being a more dangerous and volatile place.

The company's chairman said its future was in a "less political and less volatile" place: the suburbs.

If there's one thing we've learned from this, it's that we don't want to depend on these volatile, far-off places for energy.

The world was presently a volatile place and no one needed to remind Admiral Morgan of that.

The neighborhood around the shooting, a volatile and potentially violent place on any given day, was filled with Soaker-packing children yesterday afternoon.

It is a competitive, unstable, even volatile place.

Yet, it is strange how high-fashion houses, seen as emotionally volatile places, seem so utterly the opposite these days.

The Nasdaq went up 10% in one hit, that is a very volatile place to be," he said.