Word: combated
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...move toward hyphenation has been a very different kind of struggle for Asian-Americans; it has been, arguably, a fight for the legitimacy of the "American" in the name rather than for the primacy of the "Asian." Asian-Americans have had to combat perceptions of them as profoundly foreign, as culturally alien to (white) America. "Oriental," from this point of view, was an essentializing term that incorporated not just ethnicity but mentality, even for the American-born...
Finally, though, unity became outdated. The evangelical population, although slower than the rest of the country to adopt the post-Vietnam adversarial spirit, caught up and produced a generation for whom, Noll says, "ideological combat has become de rigueur." The movement's energy, once generated by the fervor of Christian witness, appears now to flow more from the red-hot political engagement of such Christian Right warriors as broadcast executive Pat Robertson; Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed, his protege; and the less renowned but perhaps more influential James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family. Weakening the Graham clout further...
...other crime news, efforts to combat a fire at the Brattle Street Crate & Barrel furniture store took an unexpected turn Tuesday afternoon when workers discovered some money in a utility entry port...
...more than a dozen fire trucks and approximately 65 firefighters had arrived to combat the hard-to-reach blaze, but at 3 p.m. the firefighters were still having trouble locating the source of the fire because of the heavy smoke...
...Russian Air Force, it was the stuff of instant legend. The elusive rebel in crisp combat fatigues drives into an open field under a starry Chechen sky to speak on his satellite phone. As he talks, an unseen Russian plane far above is hunting him. It locks in on his satellite signal, launches its missiles and blasts the field. Jokhar Dudayev, the flamboyant and impassioned leader of Chechnya's rebellion against Russia, is dead...