Word: combatative
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...that eventually got cut ... Walked off the set of Luck of the Draw when the producers refused to let him include his pet chihuahua in the movie." Instead, Rourke, who had been a serious amateur boxer as a teenager, went professional, submitting himself to the rigorous training, abuse and combat that would pay off in The Wrestler. The face he wears in the movie came from those years in the ring, plus some plastic surgery that didn't work out quite as Rourke had hoped...
...suffer the deaths of friends who've made their big speech or sentimental impression moments before. The film suggests that any war is hell - the same kind of hell - and that a war movie should be like a real tour of duty: uncomfortable, monotonous (except when interrupted by combat) and way too long, with the draftees aching to achieve their goal or go home...
...nations have much in common: they face domestic and international terrorists, separatist movements, and are both under pressure by the international community to play a mature and stable role in South Asia. Rather than letting non-state terrorist actors command our future, we must work together to productively combat these threats...
...establishing Harvard as a carbon-tax test scenario obviously won’t solve the problem alone. But just because these efforts have no guarantee of concrete success does not mean they are not worthy undertakings. The entire nation will have to make sacrifices for us to really combat carbon emissions, but it can start at Harvard...
...That leaves FAS administrators with far fewer resources to combat a deficit for the upcoming fiscal year, which will see increased costs from debt and energy payments on new buildings, increased demands from financial aid, and a $25 million shortfall on the current year’s expenditures...