Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinatown, you'll have to walkthrough the Combat Zone (T: Orange Line toChinatown). The Combat Zone is one place you don'twant to visit--unless you revel in dirty movies,drug dealing and triple-X rated peepshows...
...seemed to be on the verge of completely disintegrating. Angered by Washington's refusal to sign the "biodiversity" treaty to protect the world's plants and animals, several poorer nations considered withdrawing their support for the pact and even spoke of reviewing their position on the agreement to combat global warming. At summit headquarters trivialities and private agendas derailed serious debate over the plan of action called Agenda 21. Arab delegates pushed for oblique references to emotional and irrelevant issues like the plight of Israel's occupied territories, while oil states worked to strip out any language implying that petroleum...
...same principle applies to religion: by the time women climbed into the pulpit, the real action in the religion business had shifted to televangelists in their TV studios. Or the military: just as women finally got to participate in combat-like roles, the old heroic concept of war was replaced by televised fireworks and the mass bulldozing of enemy infantry...
Most delegates felt that the treaties to be signed were not strong enough, and they blamed the U.S. In presummit meetings, American negotiators -- fearful that the proposed agreements could hurt U.S. economic interests -- insisted that the treaty to combat climate change be weakened, and the White House is refusing to sign the pact to protect endangered plants and animals. But most other nations came ready for action. India, often a holdout in environmental negotiations, agreed to the climate-change treaty, and three countries -- Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands -- pushed for tougher curbs on the gases that may cause global warming...
Bean-Bayog said the reference to "phenomenal sex" was intended to combat Lozano's depression and was a statement he was attributing to his girlfriend...