Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prime suspects, but they are not Quarryville's only guilty citizens. We also encounter the pastors of the town's three churches, who combat for the soul of Quarryville and of Ziza Todd. Don't forget Bob Bramer, the perpetual loser in the mayoral elections and Professor van Runk, the broke Washington Irving scholar who owns a key piece of real estate. Quarryville is too small and too incestuous for everyone not to get involved...
...Bush's performance: Duke says the president "sold out the Republican Party" in compromising with Democrats to produce a civil rights bill to combat discrimination against women and minorities in the workplace...
...competing in the Olympics, for Teruel, is a chance to combat the apathy he sees all around him and to make his small voice heard above the fray. "You can't have a fair society," he says, "but what else have you got to go for? The people who really could do something don't feel like they can. And the people who are really dangerous do everything...
...anti-Semitism in our society, I believe it is crucial to permit the Jeffries and David Dukes of this world to openly express their views--and in so doing, confront ourselves with the painful reality of the bigotry present among us and the need for continuous work to combat...
Perez was able to return to his office a few hours later. Most of the armed forces had remained loyal, and air force F-16 jets strafed rebel positions, blocking their movements and disrupting their communications. The coup leader, Lieut. Colonel Hugo Chavez Frias, 37, dressed in combat gear and a red paratrooper's beret, turned himself in 12 hours after the shooting began, but warned that the military might find "another occasion." More than 1,200 rebel soldiers surrendered, including 136 officers. Officials said as many as 7,000 of the 73,000 troops in the armed forces...