Word: combatting
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...videotape record of one of the Tailhook workshops that took place two hours earlier that same day, in which senior Navy brass -- including Chief of Naval Operations Frank Kelso and former Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III -- sat by as Navy officers jeered the idea of women in combat. "By not taking a stand at this moment, these gentlemen created an atmosphere conducive to what happened afterward," said a Navy officer who witnessed the incident...
Earlier in the week Mahfouz resigned his post "to combat these false charges," and the same day silver plunged on European exchanges as his bank, Saudi Arabia's largest, dumped gargantuan amounts of the metal. The silver shock spilled into oil stocks, which helped fuel a 44-point slide in the Dow- Jones average on the New York Stock Exchange. Although silver and stocks recovered, the turmoil in those markets was the first close-to-home repercussion of the B.C.C.I. scandal in the U.S. It may not be the last...
What harm man can do, nature can undo -- at least for a while. While the alumni of the Rio environment conference undertake complex schemes to combat global warming, scientists are finding that Mother Nature is quietly applying her own highly efficient methods...
...troops and up to a year of intense battle. "In the gulf war, the allies' high-tech stuff worked well," says Michael Dewar, deputy director of London's International Institute of Strategic Studies. But in mountain guerrilla warfare, "smart weapons are of little use. It would mean tough infantry combat from tree to tree...
Polls show that drugs, more than terrorism or the economy, are Spain's most incendiary political issue. The country has become a principal gateway for South American cocaine, Middle Eastern heroin and North African hashish. Although the government has stepped up enforcement, its combat against the drug trade is uneven. Colombian Justice Minister Fernando Carrillo Florez recently charged that "the battle against the Medellin cartel is being lost because of Spanish bureaucratic hassles" in delivering evidence against dealers...