Word: combat
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Isabore Hlazel, a Brookline resident, said he was concerned about the cost of fixing Y2K glitches in the U.S. He said that companies might "fudge" their level of compliance and that smaller companies or communities do not have adequate resources to combat the problem...
Critics will be looking for signs of her influence as the Commander in Chief considers the plight of Puerto Rico's Vieques Island. Navy Secretary Richard Danzig says the live-ammo range there is "an important and irreplaceable site," vital to assuring Navy and Marine combat effectiveness. But after two stray 500-lb. bombs killed a security guard and injured four other civilians last April, the island's 9,300 residents declared that they had had enough. Nowhere have they found more sympathy than in New York, a city that has one-quarter the number of Puerto Ricans that Puerto...
...down the road. So this particular "peacekeeping" operation may end up looking more like a counterinsurgency campaign. Joining the Aussies will be British Gurkhas and troops from Malaysia, New Zealand, France, Thailand, the Philippines and Canada. The U.S. is expected to provide a small contingent in logistical rather than combat roles. But first the international community may have to hold Indonesia to its word...
...Combat survivors speak of the terror and the excitement of playing in a death match. Are we somehow incomplete as people if we do not taste that terror and excitement on the brink? "People are [taking risks] because everyday risk is minimized and people want to be challenged," says Joy Marr, 43, an adventure racer who was the only woman member of a five-person team that finished the 1998 Raid Gauloises, the granddaddy of all adventure races. This is a sport that requires several days of nonstop slogging, climbing, rappelling, rafting and surviving through some of the roughest terrain...
...attempt to combat its reputation for inaccessibility, the Undergraduate Council has established a newsgroup on Harvard's computer network where students can make themselves heard--or rather seen...