Word: foes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...colonel, call sign "Rico," 40, scored one of those kills from his F-15C. "I was in the right place at the right time, and had a little luck," he says. "He ran into my missile." He had to wait for an AWACS to confirm that it was a foe before taking it on. "That all took about 20, 30 sec., but it seemed like it lasted an hour," he recalls. "Your hands, your eyes, your mouth--everything goes into training mode," he said. "Combat still scares the hell...
Tactically, the U.S. military is at a disadvantage when an enemy won't fight on its terms. Iraq, with its tanks and warplanes, was probably the last foe to make that mistake. The death of 18 U.S. Army troops in Somalia in 1993 showed the perils of fighting a primitive foe. Even though some 500 Somalis died in the battle, the fight was seen as a defeat for the U.S., which withdrew shortly thereafter. Milosevic was the first test case following the Gulf War in which an enemy could choose, more or less, to try to engage...
...know why. Over the past five years the Atlanta goliath has used Pepsi as a punching bag, kicking its can from Turkestan to Tallahassee and creating vast amounts of wealth for shareholders in the process. Who wouldn't want a foe like that? By the time Roger Enrico walked into the chief executive's suite at PepsiCo headquarters in Purchase, N.Y., three years ago, the company's performance had detached itself from its image as a vaunted marketing maverick that launched the cola wars in the '80s. The numbers tell all: in the U.S., Pepsi sells a single soda...
...With his foe rendered momentarily senseless, Kane decided to unmask this pest...
...Waco, the Crimson suffered their first defeat of the break, losing 4-5 to Big 12 foe Baylor...