Word: combatative
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...decision to draw $800 million from the state’s Rainy Day Fund is appropriate in this time of economic crisis. Other measures, such as expanding public works projects to combat unemployment, should be employed so that the impact on Massachusetts families can be minimized, even if it leads to deficit spending...
...Encircled for more than a week by 30,000 Northern Alliance troops, Taliban leaders turned to the time-honored art of the deal. The Northern Alliance was just as eager to avoid an internecine bloodbath. That is the Afghan way of war, where changing sides is as habitual as combat, and victories are often measured in defections, not dead...
...sits alone in a tiny, deserted park next to a by-the-hour hotel shaped like a fairy-tale castle. The last train to Yokohama, where her parents live, has long departed. The 17-year-old is wearing black fishnets under short shorts, her long legs tucked into incongruous combat boots. Harumi lights up a cigarette. With her pale skin, bad teeth and stringy hair, she suddenly appears much older. "Right now I don't have a lot of money," she says. "So I'm waiting for this guy I met. He said he'd get me work, introduce...
...German team, the Taliban fighters launched themselves at Spann, scrabbling at his flesh with their hands, kicking and beating him. Spann killed two more with his pistol before he disappeared under the crush. An Alabaman with a wife and three children, Spann became the first American to die in combat in Afghanistan...
...support the move by the Justice Department to publicize a valuable incentive for immigrants and residents of other nations to help combat terrorism. It certainly presents a better face to the world than the Department’s previous actions that seemed to accuse all Arab-Americans of fraternizing with the enemy. Most importantly, it seems likely to generate new information that will help keep all Americans safe, regardless of their country of origin...