Word: foes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mayor hadn?t had a problem with the studio?s throwing a launch party for its new magazine, Talk -? headed by former New Yorker magazine siren Tina Brown -? at the city-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard. Until he found out who the cover girl might be: Hillary Clinton, his likely foe in the upcoming U.S. Senate race. And now Rudy?s famous foot has come down -? no Democratic-leaning faux fund-raisers on the city?s dime. "We thought that would lead to an event possibly becoming politicized," Deputy Mayor Randy Levine said Tuesday. "There was the possibility that this thing...
...even if the Army is never fast and light, the U.S. military will still possess an unmatchable tactical dominance over its opponents. That worries some Pentagon thinkers. In the next conflict, they fret, a really smart foe won't fight the U.S. in the skies or on the ground--places where victory is unlikely. Instead, it will be smart and strike far away from the war zone--in the heart of a major U.S. city, perhaps--with chemical or biological weapons. Even the slickest Stealth bomber couldn't stop that...
...predicament was invisibility. Other gay leaders of the day--obedient folks who toiled quietly for a hostile Democratic Party--thought it more important to work with straight allies who could, it was thought, more effectively push for political rights. Milk suspected emotional trauma was gays' worst foe--particularly for those in the closet, who probably still constitute a majority of the gay world. That made the election of an openly gay person, not a straight ally, symbolically crucial. "You gotta give them hope," Milk always said...
Harvard got out to a strong start in the 1998 season, crushing Vermont 5-0 and Ivy foe Columbia 4-1 in the first two weeks of play. An early match-up against No. 3 ranked Connecticut, however, proved too much for the Crimson, as the team battled for a 3-1 loss...
...long-time foe of randomization, Kiely is renowned for encouraging the arts in all forms, in addition to helping create a House atmosphere that was at once welcoming and responsive to students...