Word: rearguard
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...agreed to talk to TIME about the center's operation. While it battles bin Laden's al-Qaeda network abroad, the agency has been fighting a ferocious rearguard action at home to keep the CTC independent of the new Department of Homeland Security. Critics complain that the agency failed to piece together information that might have led the FBI to the Sept. 11 plotters. "The failure of the intelligence agencies to share information with each other was one of our government's most egregious lapses leading up to Sept. 11," charges Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman...
...agreed to talk to TIME about the center's operation. While it battles bin Laden's al-Qaeda network abroad, the agency has been fighting a ferocious rearguard action at home to keep the CTC independent of the new Department of Homeland Security. Critics complain that the agency failed to piece together information that might have led the FBI to the Sept. 11 plotters. "The failure of the intelligence agencies to share information with each other was one of our government's most egregious lapses leading up to Sept. 11," charges Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman...
...admire pro-lifers for trying to prevent science from turning human embryos into tissue factories. But theirs is a rearguard action. The benefits of such research will soon become apparent. Stem cells are now being injected into monkeys with a Lou Gehrig's-like disease. Human trials will undoubtedly follow. Those resisting this research will find themselves outflanked politically, as the stampede of the incurably sick and their loved ones rolls through Congress demanding research and treatment. The resisters will also find themselves outflanked morally when the amount of human suffering that stem cells might alleviate is weighed against...
...make sure that all the money they spend on starmaking doesn't disappear down some college kid's hard drive. And that's where the lawyers come in. Suits against Napster and MP3.com - the latter of which settled with several of the Big Five record companies last week - are rearguard actions, meant to slow the music business' evolution and milk its aging business model for a few billion more. The music industry may yet squash Napster with legalities, or force it to join forces with the old guard, as it did with MP3. But if the lawyers are tolling...
...early Elvis, made fun of gabby folk singers (Rock Island Line) and Harry Belafonte's calypso shout (Banana Boat). Freberg's parodies were notable not just for their dead-on mimicry but also for the sophistication of their musical commentary. A jazz lover, Freberg fought a rearguard action against rock 'n' roll, which he considered undisciplined and musically simplistic. Only Freberg would have had the idea to satirize the Platters' Great Pretender by focusing on the hipster studio pianist who's forced to play the boring "clink clink clink" accompaniment. His critique of mush-mouthed rock 'n' roll culminated...