Word: combating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Appiah commended Mandela for emphasizing Africa's potential for growth and the need to combat widening wealth disparities worldwide...
Echoing United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's words at Sanders Theatre on Thursday, the South African president asked the world, as one, to "combat and eradicate its disparities...
...greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities. While in all parts of the world progress is being made in entrenching democratic forms of governance, we constantly need to remind ourselves that the freedoms which democracy brings will remain empty shells if they are not accompanied by real and tangible improvements in the material lives of the millions of ordinary citizens of those countries...
...wild as the week may have looked to spectators, in the trenches on Wall Street it was hand-to-hand combat. I tried to make stands on stocks big and small, only to be overwhelmed by huge sellers. Take General Electric: on Friday I bought shares at $75, then $74 and then $73, and then I doubled down at $72 with 18 minutes left before the bell. For a minute, I wanted a hemlock cocktail, as it flashed on my screen that Microsoft had just overtaken GE as the world's largest capitalization stock. But then the mischievous GE seller...
...progress made in the decades to follow did not completely wipe out such differences between the genders. When the U.S. invades a tiny country, for instance, women are still more likely to dwell on the disparity in size. Men understand that, regardless of the size of the opponent, combat is combat: you detonate large bombs; you win medals; you could get killed. In that summer house, the men understood that regardless of the origin of the game, you still have to analyze the plays. You still have to keep statistics. You still have to play to win. You still have...