Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last night's benefit performance was the first of three scheduled for this weekend. All proceeds from the event support the Jimmy Fund's efforts to combat childhood cancer and leukemia...
...Crimson is determined not to emerge empty-handed. Practices have been geared particularly to combat the Bears' strengths...
...staunch supporter of rent control, Lee pledges to combat skyrocketing rents and massive business developments which, he says, have destabilized the lives of thousands...
...forum for hair-trigger antagonists to meet regularly and vent their grievances. It has provided a framework for international laws that govern activities ranging from nuclear nonproliferation to the use of outer space and the ocean floors. It has helped unfortunate nations set up democracies, create livelihoods and combat threats to health. It has acted as a useful buffer in 35 peacekeeping missions, and more than 30 million desperate refugees have come under its wing. Pope John Paul II's Oct. 5 speech to the U.N. highlighted the organization's broad battlefront against circumstances that "offend the conscience of humanity...
...used improperly." Zarakhovich says little money or technical expertise currently exists in Russia to modernize outdated and shoddy Soviet-era construction. "The problem is widespread. There have been quite a number of accidents in Moscow and elsewhere involving subways, elevators, escalators, and roads. Given the lack of resources to combat the problem, Soviet-era infrastructure will pose significant risks for some time to come...