Word: combated
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Thus, determinations of what constitutes sexual harassment must differ between workplaces and schools. It is more difficult for employees to combat the actions of their superiors, for fear of professional ramifications, than it is for students to react to unacceptable advances of fellow students. We expect students to stand up for themselves. Only when a preexisting advantage among the sexes interferes with this can we justify calling an act sexual harassment rather than simply recognizing it as reprehensible behavior...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "There is no more critical issue than funding for health-care services to combat the AIDS virus...
...leadership and accountability in government. In classic Republican fashion, he attacks the liberal Schumer as a "tax-and-spend" lawmaker, and in a mostly white, middle-class Brooklyn and Queens district surrounded by encroaching inner-city slums, he points out that high taxes have not helped to combat drugs, unsafe streets and an unraveling school system...
...concerned citizen who reached the end of his patience over an "uncivil and ugly" Congress, Braden is riding to the rescue in the name of mainstream Americans. As a combat veteran--he served in both the Korean and Vietnam wars--he backs a strong national defense but also wants to crack down on inefficient Pentagon spending. His most dramatic proposal: to deprive the President and Congress of their full salary should they fail to pass a budget by Oct. 1 each year...
...Vietnam veteran with a Bronze Star and 25 helicopter combat assaults on his resume, Hunter still devotes a lot of time to military affairs--as chairman of the House Military Procurement Subcommittee, where he lobbies for more defense dollars. He also has made illegal immigration a priority and is a strong opponent of the "NAFTA Train," a proposal to restore the San Diego and Arizona Railroad, which dips into Mexico and, according to Hunter, would be a magnet for illegal aliens and bandits...