Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commission changes its mind, this would be a permanent revocation," the commission's legal adviser Donald Haight insisted. "Without further action, the license would not be restored." But in boxing, nothing is forever except Don King. Tyson can reapply annually to reenter the ring. The house of 'unarmed combat' is hardly built on principles: the sport was waiting eagerly when Iron Mike, rapist, got out of jail, and it may not take long for boxing's rapacious governors to grow ravenous for the biggest draw of the decade...
Rand Araskog, the CEO of ITT Corp., is a West Point graduate and a combat-hardened veteran of takeover wars who knows the value of a tactical retreat. He has fought off corporate raiders who sought to break up his company, as well as investors critical of ITT's performance and his high salary. So when Hilton Hotels Corp. offered $6.5 billion to buy ITT, which owns the Sheraton hotel chain and Caesars World casinos, Araskog manned the ramparts again. To raise cash and buttress the company's stock price, he sold once prized but now indefensible properties like...
...There are, however, certain mitigating geographical factors. Adulterous acts performed on the campus of a duly designated "war college" may be overlooked if they were performed for no purpose other than maintaining the adulterer's testosterone levels at combat-ready levels. This exception obviously does not apply to those congenitally testosterone-deficient personnel (e.g., females) who may have been party to the adulterous...
...hang so much human grief and loathing. His opacity--the blank look punctuated by occasional bursts of defense-table bonhomie--is especially revolting to those who sense that he fancies himself a prisoner of war on trial for collateral damage that he sees as the inevitable consequence of combat. That makes people want to see him dead, but it may be the best reason not to execute him--to deny him his bid for martyrdom, to keep him earthbound and watch him slowly wither, not a hero to his cause but just another old jailbird shuffling around his cell...
...nearly two years, Oppenheimer (along with Moon Duchin '97) was The Crimson's posterchild of gay activism. Oppenheimer's shaved head and black combat gear--and his affinity for biting quotations--made him conspicuous on this carefully-groomed, moderate campus...