Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...combat bacterial food poisoning, the U.S. Agriculture Department proposes stricter poultry processing. Under new rules, chickens would be inspected more closely for contamination with fecal matter, and bird carcasses would be treated with germ-killing sprays or rinses...
...long way off [from a cure]," Marasco said. "But the data looks quite good. It could be the beginning of a genetic-based strategy to see if we can combat...
...look at what it's like to be a lesbian these days. While I cannot speak from personal experience about what it is like to be a lesbian in the '90s, the film confronts, draws out and discusses very openly such sterotypes of lesbians as butch or short-haired, combat-boot-wearing nose-ring-touting macho sluts...
Forty-five years after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed to combat the Soviet threat, Russia joined NATO'S Partnership for Peace. Although NATO'S security umbrella does not cover the partnership's 21 members, mainly countries formerly in the East Bloc, it allows them to hold joint military exercises with NATO forces. Meanwhile, Russia and the U.S. also announced that President Boris Yeltsin and President Clinton will hold a summit in Washington in late September. And in a cementing of relations with other Western allies, Yeltsin signed a trade treaty with the European Union. The deal involves...
When the woman decides she has had enough, she may move out or demand that her partner leave. But "the men sometimes panic about losing ((their women)) and will do anything to prevent it from happening," says Deborah Burk, an Atlanta prosecutor. To combat feelings of helplessness and powerlessness, the man may stalk the woman or harass her by phone...