Word: combated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jackson on the Today show. Jackson immediately seized control by congratulating Dukakis, then adding dismissively, "You did well with your home-field advantage." Dukakis laughed nervously and fell silent. The incident was an apt symbol for the Dukakis dilemma: the need for the earnest gears-and-levers technocrat to combat the powerful passions of a black preacher...
Israelis, remembering that the U.S. and Britain limited press coverage of the Grenada and Falkland Island invasions, ask defensively why Israel should hesitate to do the same in the West Bank. The analogy blurs the line between the secrecy needs of combat operations and those of policing civil unrest, but the idea of shutting out the press has got a sympathetic hearing in elite quarters. Last month former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was quoted as telling a group of American Jewish leaders that the "insurrection must be quelled immediately, and the first step is to throw out television...
Government spending for long-term care should triple to $18 billion a year in order to help combat the problem, and this money can be raised, in part, with higher taxes, she says...
This general decline logically indicates that even fewer women and minorities will enter the scientific community in the coming years. To combat this problem, some experts feel that affirmative action for women and minorities is essential for the health of the nation and not just the most ethical choice. Responsibility rests on American school systems to encourage more students to enter and remain in science at all levels of education...
Moreover, even the developers wonder whether pilots in a crunch will trust their lives to silicon advisers. Chris Spiegl of Texas Instruments, which is developing the system with McDonnell Douglas, notes that to better their concentration, many pilots begin turning off automatic systems the closer they get to combat...