Word: fight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME: So that's why you have to fight the Justice Department...
...tracking thousands of troops, tanks and tarpaulins, Army bean counters rate the readiness of each of the service's 10 divisions. Troops, weapons, logistics and training are all measured, then reviewed by commanders and tweaked if the results might give a misleading impression of a division's fitness to fight. The grades range from C-1--fully ready to wage war--to C-4, unprepared for battle. The marks warn the Army of impending problems and help the generals know when to turn up the spigots for troops or materiel if a unit is lagging. The results are secret, complicated...
...result of insufficient funding and a foreign policy that has committed military personnel to areas where we have no vital security interests," said Senator James Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee readiness panel. And there were dire warnings that America was not ready to fight. But, like so many things that emanate from the Pentagon, there's far more to this story than the bald fact that a pair of divisions flunked their readiness drill...
...wage and win two "major theater wars" at once. But because it would take up to 90 days to move troops in Bosnia and Kosovo to a new conflict--longer than permitted under Pentagon guidelines--their commanders had no choice but to rank their units as unable to fight...
...exhibit the most troubling fanaticism about Pokemon. Children have written hate e-mail to movie critics who have panned the film. After a screening and being mesmerized by Pokemon battle after Pokemon battle, an excited little boy told his father, "That movie makes me want to fight." Not words parents want to hear...