Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history, out-youthed only by Kennedy and Theodore Roosevelt. For 40 years, World War II was a dominant life experience for eight Presidents in a row. All of them served in uniform -- even Ronald Reagan, who sometimes also projected the fantasy that he had seen the horrors of combat. Clinton was not born until a year after Japan surrendered. "World War II is as far away from Bill Clinton's generation as World War I was for George Bush's generation," observes Andrew Cherlin, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University. "What is happening is that the first half of this...
...Access to college loans. Apprenticeships for those who aren't college bound. These are proposals whose potential beneficiaries, and therefore supporters, aren't restricted to the poor. Not incidentally, however, they are of particular value to the poor. None of these things looks like a "poverty program." All would combat poverty...
Topics of the morning session include computer-assisted surgery, vaccines to combat dental cavities and AIDS, new agents to halt tissue destruction and techniques to assess dental implants...
Members of the Massachusetts chapter of NOW instructed a group consisting mostly of women in combat and defense tactics to counteract action by Operation Rescue, a prolife activist group which organizes highly publicized blockades of abortion clinics...
CAPTION: Should women who serve in the military be allowed to participate in combat...