Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last, in order to combat widespread pessimism, we need to start emphasizing the progress being made, as well as the great potential of government service to create additional national prosperity. Rather than a panorama of problems, a vista of promise would thus await. The world has changed in many positive ways over the past two decades: computer technology entered the home, and rapid telecommunications became a part of our lives; the Cold War died, while in many countries democracy was born. Developments in medicine, genetics, agriculture, and physics of the past two decades are continuing to revolutionize our lifestyles...
While the majority of the crowd interrupted the president's 40-minute speech intermittently with shouts of support, three or four members of the audience disrupted the beginning of the rally with angry accusations that the Clinton Administration has not provided enough funding to combat AIDS and support public health education programs...
Well, now is the time when the 10,000 men need your help most. The players really appreciate the support, and will need it to combat rowdy Cornell fans who will be flocking in by the bus load. Be sure to pick up your tickets and get ready for a hard-fought battle...
...before Dole can claim the nomination, he must defeat a rejuvenated Buchanan, and he must combat the moderate candidacy of Alexander...
...turns out, however, that the body and the virus engage in mortal combat from the beginning. The main battlefield is not the circulatory system (where physicians had been looking for the virus, dutifully taking blood samples every few months) but in the hard-to-reach lymph nodes. Now scientists realize that there is a window of opportunity, and a fairly large one at that, to attack the virus while it is still hiding, before it has started to wreak havoc on the body's natural defenses...