Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Catlin suggests a regular exercise routine and an overall feeling of optimism to help students combat the winter blues and survive their academic and weather-related obstacles...
...operations troops bungled their task. Plucked from army, police, security and Interior Ministry forces around Russia, they found their radio systems did not allow them to communicate. Their overall commander, General Mikhail Barsukov, is a former Kremlin security chief best known for his loyalty to Yeltsin, not for his combat experience. The troops mounted uncoordinated assaults on the village and ended up shooting at one another. Forced to pull back, they simply opened up at long range with missiles, mortars and attack helicopters. When the earthshaking barrage began on Wednesday, a spokesman for Barsukov suggested to reporters that the hostages...
...precarious if well-heeled life of these executives is, to some extent, a reflection of the increasing complexity of their jobs. Running a multimedia conglomerate--trying to combat big, aggressive competitors; weathering the relentless scrutiny of the press--has become difficult, if not impossible, for anyone to do well for very long. Biondi seems to have been the victim of another common business syndrome: an entrepreneur-owner's reluctance to hand over control to a successor. Redstone, who built his fortune from a chain of movie theaters, hired Biondi shortly after acquiring Viacom in a leveraged buyout...
WASHINGTON WAS SHUT down by snow, Congress and the White House were locked in budget combat, and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor last week was talking about...bananas. Kantor announced a cease-fire in a yearlong imbroglio with banana producers Colombia and Costa Rica. In the past, he said, the two countries had joined with the 12-nation European Union to create trade policies that have hurt American commercial interests. Never mind that few bananas are grown in the U.S. or that only a handful of American jobs was at stake. Forget too that major U.S. producers Del Monte...
...years into the revolution, Mitterrand imposed stringent austerity measures to shore up the franc, ultimately turning his back on leftist economics. In foreign policy, Mitterrand, though instinctively hostile to U.S. domination, nonetheless proved a staunch ally at critical moments--like the 1991 Gulf War, to which he committed French combat troops. Determined to secure France's position in the post-cold war era, Mitterrand threw his full weight behind the cause of European integration, with the Franco-German axis as its motor. Mitterrand also launched some $6 billion worth of landmarks, firmly placing his imprint on the Paris skyline...