Word: combats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worrisome metaphor for the strike itself. In the days after last Wednesday night's initial air attack, the anger and determination that brought NATO and Yugoslavia head-to-head seemed to snake out like that tiny flame in the video, triggering all kinds of "secondaries." On Saturday night the combat came home to Americans, who had their television shows interrupted by images of an F-117A Stealth fighter in flames on the ground inside Yugoslavia--and the astonishing story of the rescue of the downed pilot. Earlier in the week U.S. embassies from Moscow to Paris were besieged by furious...
...about two dozen vaccines have been tested, most made from proteins found on the virus' coat and delivered via another, inactivated virus such as canarypox. While such vaccines are safe and successful in triggering antibodies, it's not clear that any will be sufficiently powerful to combat the strains of the virus that are currently in circulation...
...German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich uses a form of arsenic to combat syphilis; his work forms the basis of modern chemotherapy...
...Since its inception in 1988, the institute has worked with researchers in Senegal to combat the AIDS virus in Africa...
Since its inception in 1988, the institute has worked with researchers in Senegal to combat the AIDS virus in Africa...