Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What the city really needs to combat the trash is a new, stronger litter law, Frazier says, And Wolf, at least, agrees with...
...Many of the children have a less-than-optimal image of Harvard, and that translates into a less-than-optimal image of higher education," he said. He said he hopes the carnival helped to combat that negative perception...
...latest volley, the chiefs of McDonnell Douglas and five other defense-industry giants urged President Bush last week to seek congressional approval quickly for Saudi Arabia's order for 72 of the combat jets and 100 spare engines. "There are those who advocate a wait-and-see posture," the CEOs wrote the President, "but time is something we simply don't have." Unless the sale (long-term value: $13 billion) goes through, the McDonnell Douglas subsidiary that builds the planes in St. Louis and Tulsa will begin a shutdown of its F-15 assembly lines this summer. McDonnell Douglas spokesman...
Which is a higher priority for America, making peace in the Middle East or saving jobs at home? That, in extreme shorthand, is the painful quandary facing the White House as it considers the sale of F-15 combat jets to Saudi Arabia. If the U.S. makes the sale, it will contribute to the arms race in the Middle East. If the deal is scuttled, thousands of American aerospace workers could lose their jobs. Postwar tensions in the Middle East and the depressed U.S. defense industry have raised the stakes on both sides...
...just that -- a game. Statesmen must be judged by what they did, not by what they might have done. By this measure, Kennedy comes out well in Newman's reckoning. He was not deceived by the falsely optimistic reports on + Vietnam. Despite Pentagon pressure, he did not send in combat troops. And one of his last acts was ordering the withdrawal of a significant number of advisers. Newman has done a good job of making this record clearer; he would have done even better had he left it at that...