Word: combating
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There is little correlation between ill soldiers and where they served during the war. While certain units have more ailing members than others, some investigators see that as evidence of the stress shared by members of those units--combat, being away from home and family, and poor living conditions. The main concentration seems to be among reservists, who account for nearly half of those reporting the problem but made up only 17% of the troops serving there. The Pentagon attributes this discrepancy to the reluctance of active-duty soldiers to complain for fear of losing their jobs in a shrinking...
...fighting AIDS discrimination. AIDS activists hailed the strategy for providing some structure to the AIDS effort in the United States, but criticized its lack of specifics or support for a needle exchange program. Clinton said during his 1992 campaign that he supported needle exchanges as a way to combat transmission of HIV, but has backed off; Congress has since banned using federal money for such programs until it is satisfied there is proof of their efficacy. The Administration noted that under Clinton federal spending has increased by about 50 percent for research, treatment and care related to AIDS, the leading...
...would expect, with Catherine Ingman's stage direction. A constant, careful and oftentimes outrageous choreography of cast members supplements the humor of the script. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert's wit is very much couched in wordplay and innuendo, and Ingman creates--in effeminate prancing, mock-stealthy stalking and slapstick combat--a physical counterpart to the clever turns of phrases. While such physical comedy can compromise itself with too much zeal or too little precision, this seldom happens. The actors seem to understand the appropriate bounds for their movements and the script is never upstaged...
...deny that racial barriers still exist and must somehow be combated. However, I do not believe that the way to combat such barriers is to initiate exclusive venues of promotion. The SEO Wall Street Program and others that stem from a similar philosophy are fundamentally discriminatory...
...condition of existing equipment, especially in reserve units, is also an issue. Because of insufficient maintenance, many of the tanks, armored personnel carriers and jeeps the military keeps in storage are not combat ready. "In some places," says a high-ranking reserve officer, "it reminds me of the way things were before the 1973 war," when an Arab invasion caught Israel miserably unprepared. Now the army is ordering a sweeping inspection program. "Before these frantic checks," says a logistics officer, assessing the condition of the armored vehicles in his brigade, "70% wouldn't get to their destination. Even...