Word: combated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clients include not only AT&T but also the U.S. Army. Majer started his military efforts in 1982 with an eight-week, $50,000 training program at Fort Hood in Texas. Traditional calisthenics were replaced by a holistic stretching-warm-up-aerobics-cool-down routine. Soldiers practiced visualizing their combat tasks. The results in training test scores were apparently so good that the Army expanded SportsMind's assignment into a yearlong, $350,000 program to help train Green Berets. "They wanted the most far-ranging human- performance program we could deliver," Majer says...
...prosecutor in Charleston, W. Va., Mike Roark sported combat fatigues and a pistol during drug raids and won the nickname "Mad Dog" for his fierce pursuit of local dealers. As the city's popular Republican mayor, Roark, 42, had romped to an easy re-election last April, and was touted as a candidate for Congress or Governor. Last week, however, Roark was back in court, this time as a defendant. As he was about to go to trial, the mayor pleaded guilty to six charges of cocaine possession and resigned his position. He faces as much as six years...
Riley replaced the combat-fatigued Averill--who was shelled with 23 shots--with senior John Staples at the beginning of the second period. Staples shut out Harvard for the remainder of the contest...
...spoke, his air force was busy in the Persian Gulf battering the shipping that keeps Tehran's coffers filled with oil wealth. Baghdad claimed to have hit eleven tankers off the coast of Iran during the week. The Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, meanwhile, called all able-bodied male Iranians to combat, a signal that Tehran may be ready to launch a major offensive...
...governor is proposing a plan a similar plan to help combat the nation's $163 billion deficit...