Word: battalions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bosnia last week. A flight of helicopters lifted 60 Foreign Legionnaires and six heavy mortars off warships in the Adriatic and set them down in a heavily wooded area on Mount Igman, a strategic height overlooking Sarajevo. The platoon quickly moved into position to support a French infantry battalion that had been under attack by Bosnian Serbs...
...some time, sir, your opinion on this warchanged," the man continued in a steady but angryvoice. "Why did McNally [a man in his battalion]die when you knew this war was a mistake? Why didyou remain silent...
This is where the optimists come in. The consensus of Wall Street's battalion of educated guessers, the analysts, is that the Dow's earnings will rise to $390 in 1996. This is a rather stunning jump over the current level, so this prediction has taken a lot of people by surprise. Apparently, all this corporate slimming down, cutting the fat, getting back to basics and restructuring is paying off. Companies that make it into the Dow have reached middle age and can no longer grow as fast as they once did, so instead of wasting money in a futile...
...over CR's condemnation of bovine somatotropin (bst), a genetically engineered hormone to increase milk production in cows. Again, the magazine's original warning in the May 1992 issue (udder insanity) was widely reprinted, prompting consumer resistance to the use of bst on dairy cows. And again, a small battalion of other environmental watchdogs refuted the claims of danger, including the A.M.A. and the Food and Drug Administration...
...almost on the same day in December as the conflict in Afghanistan had begun 15 years earlier. But that is all the two campaigns have in common. In Afghanistan a small group of special forces from the kgb and the gru, the military intelligence service, assisted by several paratroop battalions, managed to take Kabul, the capital, in one day with minimal losses. In the Chechnya war, our commanders seemed to be totally oblivious of this lesson when they went after Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev. They should have used elite troops; instead, they went in with raw recruits. In Afghanistan conscripts...