Word: combatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only does the president have to worry about shifts in Soviet government, he must also combat criticism from Democrats in Congress, who want the president to make the most of Gorbachev's reign, no matter how soon it might...
SYPHILIS. The number of reported U.S. cases of syphilis, a bacterial infection that can cause blindness and death, rose 17% last year, to about 101,000. The disease was once prevalent among homosexuals, but the precautions that gays have taken against AIDS have helped combat syphilis as well. But syphilis is racing through the inner cities, driven by the promiscuity of crack addicts...
...fact, the leaps that have been made have not been made by humanists, but by scientists. More and more behavior is being traced to biological causes. Above all, we need doctors and researchers to work in the hospitals and laboratories, to make observations and conduct experiments, to combat AIDS, ozone, cancer and attrition...
...answer came, the State Department rushed in to help fend off the rambunctious Secretary. "We can't be sending in helicopters with a big U.S.A. painted on them in red, white and blue," the diplomats argued. Bennett put on that slightly bemused, slightly menacing look that he gets before combat, and replied, "Then paint the hammer and sickle on them...
Former fighter pilot Steve Corris, now a California lawyer, considers the Libyan pilots "idiots" for repeatedly facing the Tomcats head-on, since "that is an indication of hostile intention." Equally unfriendly was the Libyan pursuit of the U.S. jets at varying altitudes. Modern combat, Corris notes, "isn't like old-fashioned dogfighting." The distances are much greater, and the targets may be seen only on radar. "Everything happens very fast." Pilots called the Mediterranean incident a "knife fight" because the jets clashed at unusually close quarters...