Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Yeltsin decapitated the old command system without putting something new in its place, Russia became a battlefield on which the concepts of free enterprise and state control went...
...ostensible reason is protection, on the theory that civilians cannot tolerate seeing women in wheelchairs or body bags. Another argument is that women lack the strength or endurance for battlefield tasks, although many jobs from which they are excluded have no specific standards. In any case, the practical effect of excluding women from combat, which contributes to promotion, is to slow their rise up the career ladder...
Stripped of politics, how fair is all that? Did Bush really bungle Iraq, or did he make a decent job of an inherently tortuous situation? Desert Shield and Desert Storm -- the diplomacy of building an anti-Saddam coalition and then routing the Iraqi dictator on the battlefield -- are an acknowledged triumph. The smart bombs of hindsight are aimed instead at prewar diplomacy, where Bush is accused of coddling Saddam despite mounting evidence of his aggressive intentions...
...Kissinger believed that you will never win in politics what you cannot win on the battlefield," he said...
What happened at the meet, however, is simple arithmetic. Even though Walsh ran the five-mile, deceptively bumpy Princeton Battlefield course in 25:56, and even though Harvard took second, third and fourth places, the Princeton Tigers managed to pack their runners into the top spots to steal a victory in a meet Harvard had hoped...