Word: combated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bomb earlier in the week exploded only 165 yards from an office used by French Premier and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, killing a female postal worker. Chirac rushed to the scene from a meeting and later declared war on "this leprosy of modern times." President Francois Mitterrand called for "combat without mercy" against the terrorist menace...
...Cantabs are quickly learning how to combat Harvard's selfish manipulation of the housing market. In the November, 1985 municipal elections, 50 percent of Cambridge's voters told Harvard Real Estate, Inc. (HRE) to stop selling rent-controlled buildings to professors on a priority basis. Because of owner-occupancy rules, Harvard's house sales only serve to decontrol apartments reserved for low-income tenants...
...combat the pending seriousness, resourceful Harvard students staged a spot of comic relief at the 1955 Harvard-Yale game: during halftime, the Yale Marching Band was forced to share the field with several greased pigs...
...movement defines it as a forum to apply "moral force" in international relations as part of the search for world peace. But, said Gaddafi, "to hell with international peace." Unless U.S. policy changes, he said, an international revolutionary army of resistance fighters should be sent out to combat the U.S. throughout the world. He urged other countries to "light a fire under the feet of the U.S." He also attacked Zaire, Cameroon and the Ivory Coast "as puppets of imperialism" because they had restored ties with Israel...
...Guard pilots are counted among the world's best. Many flew combat missions in Viet Nam and now man commercial airliners for a living, spending much of their own time in the jazzier world of military jets. In interservice competition, the Guard fliers often beat out their Air Force counterparts...