Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...results are a dramatic improvement over conditions just four years ago. During the Gulf War, for example, ground commanders lacked timely satellite photos to prepare for combat because the four computer systems handling the pictures couldn't talk to one another. Today Intelink users can punch up on their computers the most recent satellite photos, as well as thousands of pages of classified reports from various intelligence agencies. White House aides monitoring the Chechnya crisis were able to dial into Intelink for daily CIA updates on the civil war. Advisers confused about conflicting news reports on the fighting referred...
...Quakers getting past "Big Country" Reeves and Oklahoma St. in the second round, though. Penn just can't combat the OSU height...
...something startling about that, the notion that Bill Clinton has been President. He is 48, in the middle of a life defined by running for office, and by the ambition to occupy the White House. Yet he has now begun his last campaign. And he does it having to combat the perception that his time has already passed. Nevertheless, says Mack McLarty, one of Clinton's oldest friends and now a counselor to the President, "he feels quite hopeful. He's not frustrated or blue or disappointed. He has an ability to adapt, to figure...
...York Drama Critics' Circle Award for "Best Foreign Play," relates the story of a trio of hostages awaiting their fate at the hands of unseen captors. In their struggle to survive the incarceration, these untimely heroes courageously confront their fears and form a loving bond to combat their isolation and helplessness...
...cute, a far cry from the mohawk and leather fashion sensibilities of the original 70s punks. Rancid could certainly be called silly looking, but they are not cute in the traditional sense of the word. Guitarist/vocalist Tim Armstrong, formerly of punk/ska act Operation Ivy, sported a leather jacket, combat boots and spiked mohawk that was pushing six inches. Lars Fredriksen, the other guitarist/vocalist, has an even more interesting fashion sense: white shirt, red suspenders, and bright blond hair sticking straight out eight inches in every direction. Fredriksen looked like the genetic mutation of a character from "Fraggle Rock," some sort...