Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speakers said they hope to begin grass roots movements across the country to combat the death penalty...
...This sounds fantastic," then-Vice President Justin C. Label '97 told The Crimson last April. "It's exactly the kind of thing that is needed to combat the apathy which keeps us from performing to full potential...
...trip next week to the Mideast to underscore worldwide support for the peace process that has been threatened by the recent wave of suicide bombings. The White House will announce today that Clinton will join world leaders at a summit in Egypt next Wednesday to address ways to combat terrorism. Clinton will also visit Israel, where 61 people have died in four bombings since Feb. 25. Jerusalem Bureau chief Lisa Beyer says that while the summit won't have an immediate effect on the peace process, it is an important step. "This signals a whole new level of confrontation...
...TIME's J.F.O. McAllister says. "Much like the Patriot missiles in the Gulf War, this equipment will help make Israel more secure ." However, the effectiveness of this initiative remains to be seen. "I suppose it will be marginally helpful, but there is not much you can do to combat suicide bombers," TIME's Dean Fischer predicts. Meanwhile, at a campaign stop in New York Bob Dole said Congress might cut aid to the Palestinian Authority if Arafat's government can not combat terrorist attacks. The White House dismissed Dole's threat as campaign rhetoric, and experts say it would...
...debates over poverty and racial tension. During Wilson's 24 years at Chicago, his research on how worldwide economic changes combined with the residual effects of discrimination to produce the black underclass has shaped the view of most experts in the field. Now, at 60, he believes he can combat what he considers a disastrous rightward swing in national urban policy better from Harvard than from Chicago, where, he says, "I was feeling a little isolated in the past several years here because of my interest in public policy...