Word: combat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard has had the opportunity to lead on several issues that also faced other universities, such as movements to use University muscle to combat sweatshops, to give students more time and space, and to help middle class families with increased financial...
...George Washington and Winston Churchill as the other recipients of such an award conferred at a specially convened convocation...holds great symbolic significance," Mandela said. "The name of an African is now added to those illustrious leaders of the Western world." In his speech, Mandela asked the world to "combat and eradicate its disparities...
...Caliguri was in his first year on the force, a 25-year-old who had seen combat in Vietnam...
Doherty says he remembers Caliguri telling himthat fighting against the bedlam in the Squareprovoked memories of combat in the war which hehad just left...
...mind was his firm push to get the P.L.A. out of business. For more than a decade, P.L.A. generals have been fighting to make money, not war. At one point, the military controlled nearly 20,000 companies employing more than 16 million people. Top P.L.A. brass, often ditching combat boots for tasseled loafers, were common sights at properties that included hotels, telecommunications services, pharmaceutical concerns and even airlines. Less public was the fact that some of the nation's vital naval and air bases had become smuggling hubs for everything from cigarettes to cement. The handsome profits--more than...