Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Police said they hope to better combat crimes with an increased understanding of their nature...
Something interesting she's done lately: "Posed for a painter wearing only combat boots and glasses. And I didn't feel vulnerable because I was naked...
...Tailhook Association, the Navy severed all ties with it and warned service members away from the 1993 convention, which in any case was a tea party. Tailhook's main legacy may be to have shamed the Navy into its decision last year to permit women on combat ships. The carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower is already being reoutfitted to take aboard the first of them. "It's largely due to the Tailhook embarrassment," says Northwestern University professor Charles Moskos, a military sociologist. As with a lot of drunken festivities, maybe the headache that followed will stay in memory more sharply than...
...profound misconception about the mission of our armed forces manifests itself in the staff opinion on intervention in Bosnia. The purpose of the armed forces is to fight; they are trained in the ways of combat every day. These days, soldiers do not fight only for their own country. The United States military has brought its influence to bear on behalf of persecuted peoples all over the world. Conflicts like the war in the former Yugoslavia now constitute the battlegrounds for the world's major armies...
Feminism's stated goal of real equality between the sexes will begin to be credible when females are required to register for the draft at 18, as males are, when 50% of combat units must be women -- in short, when women are paying 50% of the real price, not only in war but also in society's other sacrificial exercises...