Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...training, part of the citywide "Cops and Shops" program to combat underage drinking in local restaurants and liquor stores, was held over two days in August, and each business was notified twice of the meetings...
...They're definitely big, but we're pretty big too," said Scott. "We did some scouting and got to know what they run and the coaches have been working with the big men to combat that...
Alavi called for a community organizations to embark on a program of "negative reinforcement" to combat the use of fake IDs by underage students to obtain alcohol...
Besides the weaponry and the enemy--monstrous, profoundly malevolent bugs--a few other things have changed. There's a world government now, and the combat troops are fully gender integrated--to the point where they take showers together. This implies, of course, that more saltpeter than ever is being dumped into their rations...
Johnny has a high school girlfriend, Carmen (Denise Richards), who becomes the hottest pilot in the star fleet. This gives director Paul Verhoeven, always a coldly calculating craftsman, and writer Ed Neumeier, adapting a Robert A. Heinlein novel, a chance to satirize old-fashioned aerial-combat movies too. Johnny also has a frustrated high school admirer, Dizzy (Dina Meyer), who lands in his platoon, finally gets his attention and then heroically dies. This gives the filmmakers a chance to strike that note of romantic self-sacrifice--death transfigured--that is integral to movies of this kind...