Word: strength
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Women's soccer coach Robert L. Scalise sees the absence of eating disorders among his players as a "sport-specific luxury," he says. "You need strength and size to play soccer...
...champenoise that creates the carbon-dioxide fizz by fermenting wine a second time inside the bottle. Until a few years ago, U.S. consumers regarded France's pricey bubbly as an indulgence reserved for weddings, New Year's Eve parties and World Series locker rooms. But the current strength of the dollar has brought French brands within easier reach of the average American. Mumm's Cordon Rouge and Perrier-Jouët's Grand Brut, both priced at about $20 two years ago, now sell in the U.S. for as little...
...courthouse in lower Manhattan last week, and so did the war's ambiguities. At issue was a 1982 CBS Reports documentary that accused Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968, of participating in a "conspiracy" to understate the true strength of the enemy in order to make the war appear winnable. McNamara spoke emotionally in the general's defense. He stated that Westmoreland is "a person of tremendous integrity" who could never have lied to his superiors, and he said that he had told CBS Producer George Crile as much, off the record...
When Boies queried the witness about Westmoreland's estimates of enemy troop strength, McNamara readily acknowledged that the numbers did not "add up." He disputed, just as the CBS documentary did, Westmoreland's claim in 1967 that the U.S. had finally reached the "crossover point," at which more enemy forces were being killed than could be replaced. But he characterized his dispute with Westmoreland as an honest difference of opinion. Actually, he testified, he regarded estimates of enemy strength as inherently unreliable and unimportant. It was a remarkable aside from the precision-minded man who was often accused...
...baseline's his strength," said junior Arne Duncan, "and we took that away from...