Word: combating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard fencing teams had one edge when they traveled to New York this weekend to combat perennial powerhouse Columbia--the Crimson heart and spirit. Unfortunately, that did not prove to be quite enough...
...that "the lack of an integrated radio station is more a reflection of Boston's segregation than a cause of it," he nonetheless insists that radio stations should be pressured into playing black music; after all, he notes that "someone has to take the lead if we are to combat our racial polarization." Yet calling upon the media to determine, rather than reflect, societal trends is a dangerous proposition. Cross-over media exposure can assist, but not replace, human contact as a means of destroying prejudice and fear...
Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokesperson Peggy McNamara said law enforcement officials from Harvard and MIT, under the jurisdiction of the CPD, teamed up to combat the growing bicycle theft problem...
...year training course of would-be Navy pilots. In researching the book, Waller flew with aviators now stationed in the Persian Gulf. "I can imagine how their hearts are racing," says Waller, our State Department correspondent. "Catapulting off a carrier and landing on it are almost as dangerous as combat." Waller's previous book, Commandos, was based on his reporting on Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the resulting Gulf War, which gave him an especially informed perspective as he covered last week's showdown with Saddam Hussein...
...combat reporting--including that of Peter Arnett of the Associated Press, John Saar and Don Moser of LIFE magazine, Jonathan Schell of the New Yorker, Ward Just of the Washington Post, Sydney Schanberg of the New York Times and scores of others--that is most moving, both for the horror seen and the risks taken. Tom Wolfe's reconstruction of a carrier-based bombing run over North Vietnam still makes one's palms sweat...