Word: combatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These conservative critics say they are trying to combat a decline in the quality of the core curriculum at many of the nation's colleges and universities. They argue that, during the last 20 years, colleges and universities have become increasingly politicized, giving way to the demands of special-interest groups...
Cambridge public schools received $170,000 this fall in Federal grants for a special program to combat the city's 35 percent high school dropout rate...
...probable electoral votes was no better than even with George Bush's. Today the Bush bulge, though marginal nationwide, translates into an intimidating electoral count approaching 270. This allows Bush greater flexibility in pursuing important states in no-man's-land and in attacking Dukakis territory. Dukakis, like a combat surgeon, must practice triage as he allocates precious assets to regions where his prospects can survive. His brave talk about waging a 50-state campaign rings hollow as his managers throttle back in about 15 states, most of them in the West and Deep South. Dukakis' electoral vote...
...vultures are opportunists who wait for anything to happen to their advantage," the officer says. The vultures include pickpockets, drug dealers, and others who prey on the weak in the Combat Zone...
...combat Zone was a dumb idea in the firstplace," Rosenberg says. "On the upside it was agood idea to concentrate all the pornography inone place," he says. "On the downside, it becomesa breeding ground for drugs, crime, andprostitution...