Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drivers, wrecking balls and backhoes doing for the common good? Get ready, because the Artery will soon be blasted up and replaced by some pretty fountains, park benches and begonias. In 1991, the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, affectionately (or not so affectionately) known as The Big Dig, was started to combat ferocious traffic problems in the Boston area. The plan called for Boston's exposed artery--its largest eyesore--to be buried. The Artery's traffic will be carried instead along a 10-lane underground expressway. Anyone living downtown better be ready to feel safe above hollow ground: most...
...combat the competition, Harvard has beenworking new forechecks and a zone defense ratherthan a man-on-man backcheck. Despite thosechanges, Harvard will not be unrecognizable to theCrimson faithful...
...stage was set and Styperek stepped up, taking the second set 6-3. In winning the decisive third set 7-5, the sophomore had to combat not only his opponent, but also strange displays of gamesmanship...
...market's five-day run, the lobby of the Angelika Film Center was still aswarm with writer-producer-directors passing out handbills, waving placards, showing trailers on handheld DVD players, almost literally collaring people to see their films. It was marketing as hand-to-hand combat, an uneasily direct communion between filmmaker and potential audience member. The pitches: a blaxploitation parody starring a white guy! An ex-cop grandma wages war on her grandson's kidnappers! A lost relic with aphrodisiacal powers--Jesus' foreskin--turns up in Manhattan! "Pringles financed my movie," a commercial actor turned documentarian told...
...Whatever the eventual outcome, the SEC will continue to aggressively combat fraud, promote investor education and diligently work to ensure that our markets remain the most resilient, innovative and transparent in the world," he said...