Word: combat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must we combat or, at the very least, address such hostility? Certainly, racially-motivated attacks by a few ignorant individuals must continually be denounced. But the new Civil Rights Movement must also move beyond what has now become merely an habitual sounding for the prosecution of such persons...
...this country hopes to adequately combat racism and the resulting inequality, the first step inevitably must be a new agenda. As the Bush administration sends out the signal that civil rights have not suffered as severe a setback as the flag, the concept of African American self-education, coupled with vigorous dialogue with the general population, will have to figure more prominently in the decade to come...
...longer. In major cities from San Francisco to New Orleans to New York City, home-delivery services are springing up to rush gourmet fare from restaurants to the couch-bound affluent. In addition, many top-of-the-line restaurants are delivering their own plastic-packaged food, largely to combat the still lingering drop in business since the 1987 market crash. As a result, according to the Lempert Report, a food-industry newsletter, U.S. restaurants expect to sell more than $10 billion worth of home-delivered food in 1990, up from $2.6 billion...
Razo, a Harvard varsity football player, turned to PCP to combat this confusion. His defense had centered around the claim that his confession to the burglaries was spurred by a PCP-induced psychosis...
...demanded immediate steps to combat triple-digit inflation, including tax reform, making the zloty convertible with Western currency and creating a stock exchange...