Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...task force is overlooking the potential windfall that would result from a crackdown on fraud. The Administration insists that fraud will eventually be targeted. "It really is going to be a priority," says a White House health spokesman. The government, he says, may impose "new criminal statutes to combat fraud...
...into the muddy cave 8 ft. underground where he would spend the next 293 hours. A Marine veteran who still plays singles tennis three times a week, Weinstein was not afraid of the physical challenge. "In my heart, I know I could never have survived without the training and combat experience I received in World War II," he said later...
Piling up the bags has been good therapy for people eager to do something to combat the floods while keeping their minds off their losses. "All we can do is sandbag," said John Boerding, 50, who figured that more than half his 2,000-acre crop of soybeans, corn and wheat in St. Charles County had already been destroyed by late last week, and was worried that his home would sink as well. "What else can we do? Most people in this area don't even have flood insurance." But even if there are no outbreaks of disease because...
...credibility of Nelson's assault on biracial sexism. So do a number of unnecessarily graphic revelations about Nelson's frantic sex life and drug abuse, which seem to have been included to pad the manuscript. Despite these flaws, Volunteer Slavery is a compelling firsthand report from the corporate combat zone where racial and sexual lines converge and blur in the most dehumanizing ways...
...statement offers more rhetorical parsley before finally serving up some solutions. "We must begin paying off the debt by the year 2000," reads the | document promisingly, before descending into a laundry list of the obvious. "Combat waste, fraud and abuse . . . Streamline government." Churlishly, the declaration focuses on the programs of the elderly as a source of income for the young. "Social security is a generational scam . . . Raise the retirement age." Does this mean Grandpa should go back to work...