Word: combating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only irrelevant, but they do not reflect the experiences that we are having. Women who go to final clubs are not being victimized; they are trying to have fun. Lewis' sensationalism portrays women in an inappropriate manner. Is this not exactly what the administration is trying to combat...
...wrong. This is no knock on John Glenn. John Glenn is a hero. He deserves to go anywhere he wants to go. He would have earned his wings if he'd done nothing more than fly those 149 combat missions in World War II and Korea, let alone risk his life as the first American to orbit the earth...
...fossil fuel warned that curbs on emissions of greenhouse gases would destroy jobs without necessarily having a positive effect on our climate. But now, as officials from 180 nations meet in Buenos Aires this week to firm up the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty forged in Japan last year to combat climate change, the forces of opposition have suffered some major defections...
With the passage of a citizen referendum in the proud state of Arizona, that great scourge of the rooster community, cockfighting is on its way out of the culture and into the history books. Indeed, voters turned out in record numbers to ban inter-fowl combat, and organizers cited the public's growing distaste for bloody feathers as the main reason for the measure's overwhelming success...
Second, students must develop thick skins for unpopular speech and accept offensive views as a fact of life. Instead of seeking to silence others, those who are made uncomfortable by speech should combat it with speech in return...