Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tokyo, pulverized in 1996 by an amuck scientific experiment (Is there any other kind?), is in 2019 a place of repressive political reactionaries, marauding radicals and pill-popping motorcycle freebooters who do motorized combat with each other on the ramps of the city's elevated roadways. In this story, the motorcyclers are the good guys, mainly because everyone else is worse. The technocrats capture one teen and try to turn him into a human receptacle for some kind of higher-energy field (Is there any other kind?). Things go haywire. He menaces his old buddies, threatens to reduce the entire...
...that time of year again: the Beanpot's back. This is the big time. It's the Hub's version of the Final Four. The World Series of local college hockey. Harvard, BU, BC and Northeastern pitted against each other in puck to puck combat. The winner takes home the trophy and bragging rights in the city of Boston...
...struggled with studies in high school. He saw military service as the path to a better life and seemed well on his way to achieving it. Six months short of completing a four-year tour in the Marine Corps, Private First Class Arroyo, 21 -- who had won a combat-action ribbon during Desert Storm -- pulled duty in Somalia with elements of his California- based regiment. When his night patrol retreated under sudden gunfire near Mogadishu airport last Tuesday, Arroyo was discovered to be missing. His body was recovered within minutes, and he became the first uniformed fatality of Operation Restore...
Since 1990 at least 28 states have passed "stalking laws" that make it a crime to threaten, follow or harass someone. Congress this month may take up the Violence Against Women bill, which would increase penalties for federal sex crimes; provide $300 million to police, prosecutors and courts to combat violent crimes against women; and reinforce state domestic-violence laws. Most women, of course, are not looking to put their partners in jail; they just want the violence to stop...
...come. Ten years ago, when Hawkins vowed to build an entertainment- software empire with unorthodox technology, he had few believers. Today, after his Silicon Valley company, Electronic Arts, stole a huge chunk of market share from giant Nintendo with popular games like PGA Golf Tour, Chuck Yeager Air Combat and John Madden Football, he is taken seriously indeed...