Word: combatative
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...flourish outside the sharp focus of scientific scrutiny. A quote popularly attributed to Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Class of 1877, says it best: "Sunshine is the best disinfectant." The ability to target police forces that use racial profiling for training and intervention would be invaluable in the fight to combat racism nationwide...
...government to find out if their kids are druggies. In spite of there being no evidence of significant juvenile drug use in the town, a cloud of suspicion hangs heavy over students in grades six through 12 in Lockney Independent School District. Believing that the best way to combat teenage drug use is to force every kid to pee in a cup to prove he or she does not use drugs, the school board passed a policy in which all students, not just those involved in athletics, would be required to "volunteer" to take a random drug test. If their...
...campus troubles include an affair with Faunia Farley, a 34-year-old janitor who is crazed because her two children were killed in a house fire while she was having sex in the driveway. Les, her estranged husband, must add that anguish to his tormenting memories of Vietnam combat...
...opening shot of Gladiator, a rugged, combat-scarred hand reaches out and gently touches long stalks of grass, which are blowing silently in the wind. It's a hauntingly serene image, ghostly and tranquil, the kind of shot a director like Terrence Malick would undoubtedly be enraptured with. And those few seconds are about as long as it takes for Ridley Scott's adrenaline-charged combat epic to hit overdrive, rapidly shifting to Germania, where the seemingly unstoppable Roman army (a second century equivalent to the Yankees) is waiting to do bloody battle with the rebellious locals. All eyes...
...opposed the administration's decision, saying "a small, inhabited island should not be used for target practice" and supporting the call by a number of Puerto Rican politicians that the referendum be held before any bomb testing resumes. But with the Navy determined to reopen its primary Atlantic combat training facility, this time there's no easy exit for Al Gore from the administration's line, because siding with the protesters means slapping down the military. The Latino vote has become something of a holy grail for presidential candidates in '90s - Democrats have been working hard throughout the decade...