Word: combated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Computers blink, phones ring, traders frantically shout buy and sell orders in a verbal version of hand-to-hand combat. A typical day on the New York Stock Exchange...
...evening, and ultimately the winner, is John Ocacio, a former Arthur Murray instructor and a veteran of the disco era who once appeared on American Bandstand. Tonight he's wearing combat attire and camouflage makeup for a monologue about being a 19-year-old in Viet Nam. His act consists of standing with his rifle in a bayonet-thrust position and making robot-like movements, ratchetting across the stage on the stuttered word "nuh-nuh-nuh- nineteen." On a bit about post-traumatic stress disorder the movements go haywire. He throws a grenade. He takes enemy fire...
...month, in the largest gay-rights demonstration ever, 200,000 marchers in Washington protested the Administration's handling of the epidemic. Even so, the 13-member commission, now led by retired Admiral James Watkins, produced a 25-page report that decried the lack of resources and information needed to combat AIDS . "It is the firm belief of the commission that there is much to be done," the document concluded. "Too much time has elapsed and too many people have become afflicted while questions remain unanswered...
Harvard was less prepared to combat the Wildcat ferocity. Two hard-earned Ivy league victories over Brown and Yale last week left the Crimson dragging...
...cycles to dry clothes instead of one. That aside, is it really necessary to stockpile, survivalist-like, condoms in house basements across campus? The answer is no. Questions of taste and aesthetics aside, a proliferation of prophylactics across campus can only heighten AIDS hysteria while doing little to combat spread of the disease...