Word: combated
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...combat the tendency towards ethnic isolation instead of integration, Gates called for a rigorous multicultural curriculum in the public school system. "America has been multicultural from the get-go," he said...
...order to combat the ease with which skilled electronic Peeping Toms can access others' information, encryption exists to secure your connection and the data that flows over...
After three days of registering Harvard voters, the Institute of Politics (IOP) today is winding up a campus-wide effort to combat voter apathy...
What's more, Clinton's entire campaign of lies and obstructions in 1998 was designed to combat an investigation that Clinton--and many other Americans--viewed as fundamentally illegitimate. The only justification for Starr's probe of the Lewinsky affair--the reason Janet Reno authorized it--was an alleged pattern of obstruction that Starr said stretched back to the Whitewater case...
...first and finest American boy" now seemed, to many Americans, a Nazi fellow traveler, an anti-Semite, a virtual traitor. F.D.R. kept him out of the war until 1944, when Lindbergh went to the Pacific on an aviation fact-finding tour; he contrived to fly a number of combat missions and even shot down a Japanese fighter--"in self-defense...