Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four presidents allow such a catastrophic mission to continue? The foremost reason, dealt with already, was the battle of the two ideologies. But at least as prominent was the overwhelming desire to show the U.S.'s dominance in the world, to preserve its undefeated record in international combat (excepting the losing 'tie' of 1812). In a sense, defeat--or at least embarrassment--in Vietnam was a crucial but constructive blow to American arrogance...
Lame duck Defense Secretary Les Aspin overruled the Army and Marine Corps to approve a policy that will expand the presence of women in ground-combat forces. Women still won't engage in fighting, but Aspin has ordered that they be allowed to take dangerous support jobs that have been closed to them. The two services have until May 1 to provide a list of what these jobs will...
...More Combat Jobs for Women...
...year in Prague. Expected to win, she went home without a medal. The failure changed her life. She intensified her training, did double and even triple run-throughs of her long program -- a feat requiring great reserves of physical stamina and mental energy -- and consulted a sports psychologist to combat what seemed like a will to lose...
...renewed uncertainty over its outcome. With his latest parry -- even if it turns out to be as ineffectual as Diller thinks it is -- Redstone has for the moment denied QVC's chairman the prize he so eagerly desires. Diller, Redstone and Paramount CEO Martin Davis have been locked in combat since September, when Viacom agreed to buy the movie studio for $8.2 billion in a friendly deal. Soon after that agreement, Diller launched a $9.5 billion hostile takeover. In the bidding skirmishes that followed, both sides raised the stakes with the help of investment partners. QVC received backing from cable...