Word: tanked
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...letters to the White House and the Food and Drug Administration. By coincidence or design, many of the name-dropped have deposited timely contributions to organizations linked to Gingrich. Disclosures about the favors and donations provoked growing scrutiny last week of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a Gingrich think tank that seems to churn as much cash as ideas. Declared Ellen Miller, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, ``It's just another way in which Newt Gingrich's coat has many pockets...
Junior Darin Shearer, who is a Crimson editor, won the 3000 meter handily. Shearer, who clearly had the race wrapped up from the beginning, completely resisted the temptation to tank it. Instead, he pushed himself--hard...
...bear? Jonas Kjellberg Alingsas, Sweden While the situation in Chechnya is devastating and deplorable, it should come as no surprise. A look at any relief map will show that Chechnya holds the gateway through the Caucasus Mountains into the Russian heartland. Once past Grozny, it's a flat, fast tank ride to Moscow. The Russian military planners will never give up both the southern gateways of Georgia and Azerbaijan and the northern gateways of Chechnya, which would effectively relinquish control of the natural barrier the Caucasus Mountains afford. While public opinion rises against Yeltsin, the Russian military machine's influence...
...pictures of bomb-gutted buildings and bloody-faced civilians could have come from Sarajevo. Footage of burned corpses protruding from tank hatches might have been taken along the Highway of Death leading out of Kuwait. But there was something unnervingly different about the war in Chechnya, as a government turned its military might upon its own people and attempted, at terrible cost to its own soldiers, to level their capital city. For all the destruction and death, there was no victory to be had. David was defying Goliath, a Goliath that had held the world in fear for a half...
Even some of the tank crews were made up of men who had never trained together. The slipshod organization produced not just confusion -- the Russians suffered many casualties from "friendly fire" -- but ineffectiveness in combat. Generals should know that on the battlefield, soldiers swallow their fear and fight to support their buddies. If troops do not know one another, the essential bond does not exist, and they tend to shrink from action. The unseasoned draftees had no warm clothes or food to ward off the bitter cold; most did not know where they were or what their mission...