Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Intercepting a Brown pass at midfield, junior midfielder Maisa Badawy reversed the Brown drive and made a great run up the field to score an unassisted goal on an incredible individual effort...
...Despite Cowan's valiant effort, Brown slowly battled back for a 2-0 deficit...
Cabot House Master James H. Ware said all of the Quad Houses made an effort this year to make sure there would be food Sunday through Thursday nights...
...officers like to talk of the multinational effort under way at Incirlik, but it's a far cry from the 28-nation alliance that ousted Iraq from Kuwait in the 1991 Gulf War, or even the 19-nation war in Kosovo. The current force of 1,274 includes 1,058 Americans, 179 British, and 37 Turks supporting about 45 planes. The Turks fly no planes into Iraq, and the British fly only reconnaissance planes there. When it comes to dropping bombs, it is an all-American show...
Operation Northern Watch, the U.S.-led effort to keep the skies over northern Iraq clear of Iraqi warplanes, is the strangest of wars. It is not being waged according to Pentagon doctrine. It lacks a clear, attainable objective and forfeits the initiative to Saddam. And it doesn't make traditional military sense. Risking the lives of your pilots to destroy an opponent's air-defense network makes sense only when such risky missions precede an aerial invasion...