Word: combating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Naturally, such measures should occur while are soldiers are at home in basic training—a new policy with so much potential for controversy should not be instated while troops are in combat. That said, we do not wish to pass judgment on how and where soldiers should reveal their sexual orientation, if they choose to at all; we merely maintain that the military’s emphasis on such a broad integration should occur in an environment that is less emotionally taxing than combat...
...It’s nice that the facts on the bottles and the other things we distribute generate discussion on campus about what people actually do,” says Gober. “It helps to combat the peer pressure, the idea that ‘everybody’s getting ridiculously wasted on weekends so I should...
...China-U.S. diplomatic spat over cyberattacks on Google has highlighted the growing significance of the Internet as a theater of combat. Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn recently warned of its appeal to foes who are unable to match the U.S.'s conventional military might. An enemy country could deploy hackers to take down U.S. financial systems, communications and infrastructure, he suggested, at a cost far below that of building a trillion-dollar fleet of fifth-generation jet fighters. "Knowing this, many militaries are developing offensive cyber capabilities," Lynn said. "Some governments already have the capacity to disrupt elements...
...MBTA has also introduced initiatives to combat Part II crimes, which include fare evasion, simple assault and loitering. While Part I crimes have decreased in the past year, Part II crimes have increased by 32 percent...
...kind of child-safety, no-loitering zones that are built into the Miami-Dade measure. "Child-safety zones [should] have been a critical component of what we did [before]," says Book. "We just didn't think of them." Book, who chairs Miami-Dade's Homeless Trust, which works to combat homelessness in the county, helped write the new state bill. Even so, because he was so involved in promoting the original residency restrictions, the offenders under the bridge still call their colony Bookville...