Word: benchings
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...resentment burns even more because the generals know that when it comes to special-operations soldiers, they have a deeper bench than the spooks at Langley. And in Afghanistan, the Pentagon was regularly asked to supply the CIA with people from that bench. The Defense Department already has 44,000 Army, Navy and Air Force commandos in its U.S. Special Operations Command, who are as skilled in covert guerrilla warfare as the CIA's operatives. In the basement vaults of the command's headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., sit secret contingency plans to send military special-ops teams...
...this Alisha hid her eyes in her mittens, and the Sharks reserves sank deep into their parkas on the bench. Someone in the green plastic chairs of the grandstand bellowed, "Get some black...
Harvard coach Peter Brand used his deep bench, and most Crimson fencers saw action at some point...
...governor was admirable. He was able to make appointments based on merit instead of patronage. For example, he appointed the widely respected African American former District Attorney Ralph C. Martin, III to head the state Judicial Nominating Council, a group that has had little success in diversifying the state bench in the past...
...Different girls were scoring and contributing,” Botterill said. “If you looked at our bench, that’s when the most excitement came-—when those girls got their chances and opportunities...