Word: combating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...throws a particularly nasty light on the goings-on at Fort Leonard Wood and the Aberdeen Proving Ground. Generally speaking, sexual abuse is visited on women of the other side. One's own women are supposed to be sacrosanct; in fact, the most hallowed argument against having women in combat is that our men would be so busy protecting them that they wouldn't have time to do any serious fighting. When U.S. troops marched to the chant, "Two, four, six, eight,/ Rape, kill, mutilate"--which they did until well into the 1970s--they were not, presumably, thinking of their...
...wrongly calls for the University to divest should Harvard not be able to clear the oil company of its tarnished name. In so doing, a mistaken question is posed: The issue is not whether Texaco's executives have institutionalized racism there (they have), but how Harvard can most effectively combat that racism...
...ideas and words of others. There is a free-market competition of ideas at play in these classes which is directed and perpetuated by a kind of intellectually Darwinist atmosphere. Those equipped with the most extensive verbal weaponry, the thickest rebuttal armor, and the necessary obsession with intellectual combat are most likely to win. Aggressiveness and at times even aggression pay large dividends. At the end of the class, one or two hunters emerge triumphant, and his or her ideas enjoy a moment in the sun of Sanders Theater, Sever Hall or wherever it is that the hunters have assembled...
...well, Morris said. Polls showed that people didn't want a speech longer than 40 minutes.) But Emanuel and Reed took the matter to Clinton. The President had talked to Attorney General Janet Reno, who had recently returned from Long Beach, California, where school uniforms were being used to combat delinquency."I want it in," Clinton told them. "And here's how I'm going to say it." He scribbled down: "If it means that teenagers will stop killing each other over designer jackets, then our public schools should be able to require their students to wear school uniforms...
...contrast, several rigorous evaluations have shown Life Skills to reduce the rate of teen drug use. Designed to combat teen smoking, it is a series of role-playing and problem-solving exercises with not even a mention of marijuana until lesson No. 3. "The idea is to present drug resistance in a large context of social skills kids need to navigate the minefield of adolescence," says Gilbert Botvin, director of Cornell University's Institute for Prevention Research, who developed Life Skills based on behavioral data about teens...