Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...combat the competition, Campbell has taken to the streets with a door-to-door campaign strategy. Working with a $650 budget and a volunteer staff of 25 friends, he has also sent out 1300 letters and distributed bumperstickers...
Though interferon has raised the hopes of doctors and laymen alike since its discovery (in a 1960 Flash Gordon comic strip, medics used it to combat an extraterrestrial virus), it is so difficult to recover from cells that only minute quantities have been available for testing. Most interferon, including the supply that will be used in the new tests, comes from Finland, where it is extracted at great expense from white blood cells collected from Red Cross blood donors. As a result, as little as a millionth of an ounce of pure interferon costs close...
Unfortunately, these 63 polished works tend to turn self-mockery up to full volume: "Present it in a pitiful light. Three combat-scarred veterans, who fought their way from Omaha Beach to- what was the name of the town we fought our way to?" Or: "What sort of poetry do you write?" "Lyric, elegiac, and athletic In praise of youth, death, and anarchy. Very good for tearing...
NORFOLK, Va.--Eight Navy women shattered tradition yesterday as they reported to duty on five non-combat ships in Norfolk, Va., San Diego and Long Beach...
...inflation, and vigorous borrowing feeds inflation. So all economic troubles now come back to inflation-a great evil in itself and the main force that is driving down the dollar and the stock market, forcing up interest rates, frightening consumers and threatening recession. In selling his latest program to combat it, Carter has one potentially powerful asset: the prestige he won by his diplomatic triumph at Camp David. Richard Curtin, director of the University of Michigan survey of consumer attitudes, reports: "People who were not giving him a hearing just a while ago are now willing to listen. This...