Word: combated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting seemed oddly anticlimactic, with none of the passion that has left such deep scars. After seven years of bloody combat, the Sandinistas and the contras sat down at a table in San Jose's Central Seminary last week and for the first time talked directly to each other. Despite the calm voices, however, the two sides laid down two very detailed -- and very different -- proposals...
...first, what happened seemed blindingly clear. A powerful TV journalist hectored the Vice President, who had been lured into the interview expecting that it would focus on his presidential campaign. Eager to combat his wimpy image, Bush came to shove, denouncing Rather's tactics and counterattacking by recalling the evening last September when Rather stalked away from his anchor duties and left the network blank for more than six minutes. The tightly coiled anchorman, a combustible character in the coolest of mediums, seemed almost to spring out of his chair, unsettling his audience with high-voltage intensity. It was video...
...Were it not for his fellow Detroiter's surge to fame and best sellerdom, Estleman would doubtless be known as the poet of Motor City. An award winner both for private-eye fiction and for westerns, Estleman is, fittingly, never better than when describing a road and vehicles in combat on it. He is almost as good at evoking places, whether a sterile office complex, a blind-pig saloon in a ghetto, a shack in a Michigan version of Dogpatch or a patio in a smug suburb. His ear for diverse patois seems impeccable, and so does the inner mechanism...
...Islamic sheiks. Islam is also gaining strength in the camps and universities of the West Bank. Says Efraim Sneh, an Israeli brigadier general who recently resigned as head of the West Bank Civil Administration: "Islam is moving into the void, and it's much more difficult to combat that kind of terrorism...
...attempt to combat further spread of AIDS, Axelrod has written to New York State's 50,000 physicians, including obstetricians and gynecologists, recommending that they routinely counsel all women of childbearing age about the risk of AIDS. The letter urges that all women in the early stages of pregnancy, or even considering pregnancy, be tested. Radio and television campaigns, brochures and posters are also in the works. "The studies are telling us the extent to which AIDS has spread within the community, particularly the intravenous drug-abusing community," Axelrod argues. "We have to look at every preventive action...