Word: combatative
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...some educators in the district say the new small schools are already tending toward the inequalities of the previous system and say they are not sure how to combat the problem...
...leaders of its economic team have often bickered so openly that aides have found themselves struggling to suppress snickers. Bush's top economic adviser, Larry Lindsey, and Glenn Hubbard, chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, don't just tug at each other over whether or how to combat the slide in the stock market. They like a good roll in the dirt over such issues as the definition of a market bubble. Says one spectator: "It's like a boxing match but with highly dweeby language." Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who prides himself on his real-world pragmatism...
...tries to sell the world on a new war against Iraq, former President George H.W. Bush this summer made a little-noticed trip to relive his combat memories of an earlier, less controversial conflict. A few weeks ago, Bush paid a visit to the watery grave of his Avenger bomber, downed by ground fire after a run on a radio tower on the South Pacific island of Chichi-jima in 1944. The President's trip to Iwo Jima's tiny sister island was stimulated by author James Bradley (Flags of Our Fathers), who accompanied him. "I was trying to relive...
Crunching the numbers, Sachs said that each American was effectively only giving 71 cents annually to combat these diseases...
...according to the B-29 teaching staff, nothing special was done last year to combat grade inflation...