Word: combated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order to combat the semiotic nightmare that seeks to undermine rational discourse, we must all be educated in the ways of the new vraisemblable. And as the French Freudians remind us, the place to begin is in the nursery. What better way to ease the transition to post-Structuralism than to train your child in the methods of the new episteme? Goodbye Dr. Spock; Hello Yale School of Deconstruction...
...addition, the bill would dramaticallyincrease research grants to campus researchers,with almost $1 billion going for research,prevention, and education efforts to combat AIDS.Federal research grants are big business atHarvard, funding about 18 percent of theUniversity's operating budget last year...
...ministry statement said the mine was in "combat position" about 35 feet underwater. Earlier yesterday, the ministry said a Soviet-made MO-8 mine was found Thursday moored about 200 feet below the surface...
Mandatory pre-marital testing for the AIDS virus would be an ineffective way to combat the disease and an inefficient use of resources, concluded a study released yesterday by the School of Public Health...
Blessing's best previous work has been about families: War of the Roses (1985), a knock-down, drag-out marital combat, and Eleemosynary (1986), a dark comedy about how parents live through their children. Walk, by contrast, features provocative political notions: that deadly arsenals are essential to being a superpower ("Without nuclear weapons, America is Canada, only with more people") and that the prospect of Armageddon is titillating to much of mankind ("The most exciting thing in the world is to know we can destroy the world. Like that...