Word: rearguards
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...Packard swept past the weary-legged UVM rearguard, making a complete loop around the goal—an imitation, albeit shorter in radius, of what Miles had done moments before. Packard then wheeled at the left faceoff circle, beating Russell to the far side with only 57 seconds remaining in the second...
...Sunday and Monday's reports of fierce fighting at Nasiriyah and Najaf, continuing rearguard battles at the southern ports of Umm Qasr and Basra, combined with Saddam's TV appearances and the spectacle of a downed U.S. helicopter and captured POWs, suggest that the regime has avoided the internal collapse desired by U.S. planners. Even though coalition forces have advanced rapidly to within striking distance of the forces deployed to guard Baghdad, success has not come without a fight. Nor have they entirely subdued the territory through which they have passed - elements of the Iraqi military and members...
INDICATORS Truce In The Chocolate War The E.U.'s high court struck down Spain and Italy's restrictions on British chocolate, ending a nearly 30-year battle. The countries can no longer call British products, which contain up to 5% vegetable fat, "chocolate substitute." But there is one rearguard action left. They don't have...
...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...