Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jackson urged the audience to combat the "cycleof destruction" created by discrimination...
...came together with the best will in the world, but as soon as we began to talk, it grew obvious that our experiences had opened distances between us that no amount of goodwill could bridge. One of the veterans, a former captain, had been in almost continuous combat; the men under his command were shot up and killed so regularly that he couldn't keep track of them. One day he told us about sending out the body of an 18-year-old only a few hours after the boy had joined the unit. "What was I supposed to tell...
Today we are witnessing a steady decline of respect for the individual's freedom. This decline is matched by a rapidly deteriorating economy. Different political groups are suggesting different courses of action, each trying to combat the situation in their own unique way. Yet the situation continues to worsen. Perhaps the necessary step is to return to the values that founded this enlightened country...
...Office recommends that the medals be revoked because the soldier's commanding officers lied about where the battle took place so that it looked as though Iraqi troops were involved in the engagement. The three soldiers will keep their Bronze Stars, which were given to nearly everyone who saw combat in the war, but will be stripped of the medal's "V" designation that indicates valour under enemy fire. TIME Pentagon correspondentMark Thompsonsays that this is a black and white case. "If there's no enemy fire, then there should be no award...
...movement is broad-based and a genuine good-news story for both customers and the industry. At the rich and influential house of Chanel, designer Karl Lagerfeld talks of a "new tendency for beauty to combat ugliness." New York designer Isaac Mizrahi observes: "People are in a kind of sobering position. In the '80s it was so incredibly over the top. Now it's about how can we express ourselves and still maintain a certain amount of dignity." Michael Kors, who presented a sleek, sophisticated collection in New York City last week, expresses the fashion industry's new sensitivity...