Komen eventually relented, following a hate barrage from the shock troops from The Daily Kos and MoveOn.org.

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As youngsters, these people were the shock troops during the golden period of Japan's post-war economic transformation.

ECONOMIST: Greying Japan

With Associated's 1, 500 traders as shock troops, Anderson changed Panenergy from an inward-focused pipeline operator into an accomplished trading house.

FORBES: Trading places

With Associated's 1, 500 traders as shock troops, Anderson had changed Panenergy from an inward-focused pipeline operator into an accomplished trading house.

FORBES: Trading Places

They have carved the country into private fiefdoms and fought as shock troops in the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo.

BBC: Analysis: Gangsters' paradise lost

Color Jeff Bezos as the Chinese general flooding the enemy lines with wave after wave of shock troops carrying bags of rice for provisions (low overhead).

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With Edsel's death from cancer, at age 49 Henry increasingly entrusts authority to a former prize fighter, Harry Bennett, who commands personal shock troops to run the plant his way.

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The purpose isn't to thrash the president and his party or be ideological shock troops, as Ronald Reagan once warned against, but to hold a national education seminar on fiscal responsibility.

CNN: Obama's spending problem

According to Panetta, the DoD wants the ability to unleash military cyber-shock-troops to step in and stop cyber attacks on corporate computer networks but only on special orders from the president.

FORBES: Corporate Attacks Hint Of A Coming 'Cyber Pearl Harbor'

The decision of the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, more or less to endorse Mr Obama's timetable for withdrawing American troops from Iraq sent shock waves through Washington, DC, discombobulating the White House and driving the McCain campaign into panic.

ECONOMIST: Lexington