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...Defense. A maneuver named after the popular video game in which a company turns about and tries to swallow its pursuer. Even if it does not result in the acquisition of the firm that started the fray, the ploy can be a potent means of driving off the attacker...
...struggle has hardly abated in the nine months since. In fact, it has slowly engulfed much of South America, and brought the U.S. increasingly into the fray. In Colombia, U.S. subsidies have spurred antinarcotics agents into pursuing the drug mafiosos, as they are referred to by Colombian newspapers, with some success. The first four Colombians ever to be extradited to the U.S. appeared in Miami and Washington courts last month. In Peru and Bolivia, however, the U.S. has been largely defeated in its fight to stamp out the coca plant* where it is grown...
This incredibly rough game ended at midnight and both teams were so tired they lost the next night. In the first period a puck struck Harvard's Jim Thomas above the left eye. The gash required seven stitches, but a parched-up Thomas rejoined the fray in the third period...
Other academics soon entered the fray. At the University of Bielefeld, in West Germany, Historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler had received The Collapse of the Weimar Republic to evaluate, as part of Abraham's rite of passage to tenure. Wehler disliked what he called the dogmatic framework of the book and would not recommend tenure. Turner, meanwhile, circularized colleagues, sending them several of Abraham's quotations, together with underlying source documents that seemed contradictory. For example, Abraham cited Banker Hjalmar Schacht as calling the Nazis "the positive force" and telling associates "we should contribute to them and their efforts." Actually, Schacht...
...before the whistle could blow teammate Sharon Stidsen skated into the fray and knocked the puck out of Kimmel's hands into...