Word: combating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good idea. Any ruling that forces the Army to show more flexibility to its new mothers could also bring changes in the way the military deploys them--changes that could be a setback for hard-won gains in the fight to make women full partners in military roles, including combat...
...pilots hammered the final nail in Eastern Airlines' corporate coffin in a strike in 1989. The majority of American's pilots served in the military, and many seem to relish the notion of a dogfight with their famously pugnacious boss. "A lot of these guys have been in combat," says strike chairman Matthew Field of the APA. "If he wants combat, we'll give him combat...
...wishes to combat racism, one cannot do it by creating a multicultural student center. What the proponents of such a center do not realize is that racism is a philosophical issue, and that philosophically--wittingly or not--they are on the side of the racists...
...wishes to combat racism, one can only do it through reason and individualism. But to uphold reason and individualism requires a great deal of thought and intellectual honesty, and one must start by rejecting the multiculturalist premise that the individual is determined by his race...
Despite Leo's distaste for discrimination lawsuits, the Texaco case sets a healthy precedent. If corporations will not combat racism on moral grounds, perhaps being forced to pay millions of dollars in atonement will spur American businesses to combat and prevent injustice...