Word: combatancy
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...play and everyone wears sweaters. I can't confess to knowing what's going on at all. All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports. People always try to explain that sports are about a sort of mythic combat, or [about] the narratives and the stories. You know what? I've got narratives and stories and I don't need sports...
...another resolution—which calls for a report on whether arrests of homeless people have increased recently—indicated that the city is already feeling the effects of a statewide spike in the number of people living on the street. “The Combat Zone has been closed down,” Reeves said, referring to an area of Boston that in the 1960s and ’70s was known for being dangerous and full of adult entertainment venues. “People need somewhere else to go, and that cannot be Central Square...
...construction of the Chunnel, a tunnel connecting Britain and France under the English Channel, caused such high cost overruns that the British economy may have been better off without it, he said. Flyvbjerg recommended that planners adjust their estimates based on budgetary overruns from similar projects in order to combat this problem. He cited the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa, Spain as a successful project that resulted in a zero percent cost overrun. Jerold S. Kayden, the co-chair of the GSD’s Department of Urban Planning and Design, said that Flyvbjerg’s expertise on the costs...
...HUDS has also stated that it will offer forums and informational sessions to better educate students about nutrition, but offering lectures is an ineffective way to combat unhealthy eating habits. Attendees are mostly students who already know about nutrition, and if students are not encouraged to practice what they have learned on a daily basis, they will soon forget it. Instead, continually providing students with unsolicited information about what constitutes healthy meal choices will shape long-lasting dietary shifts toward health...
...situation on the ground in Iraq that determines the future of the U.S. military mission there. For one thing, the fragile calm in Iraq coincides with an increasingly perilous Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, raising pressure on the U.S. to divert more combat resources from its over-stretched military into that theater - an expanded military commitment favored by both John McCain and Barack Obama. Sending more troops to Afghanistan will require drawing down in Iraq...