Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, "people have been disillusioned with African American organizations," and that has made it difficult for Black student groups to attract and keep the commitment of Blacks at Harvard. The Word, which has previously existed as a sporadically published organization newsletter, is being revived as a magazine to combat this disenchantment, Rowe said...
...that came just in time. After a long honeymoon with the American people, the President's baffling flip-flops on taxes and a gathering recession caused his approval rating to fall to a so-so 53% by last autumn. The buildup to war followed by the breathtaking weeks of combat made Americans forget all that. Soon after Kuwait was liberated in February, Bush's popularity rocketed to an unprecedented 86%. Democrats could only gape in awe at his upward trajectory...
...drug that once shattered thousands of lives now offer hope to thousands of others? Pregnant women in the 1950s took thalidomide to combat morning sickness. When some 12,000 gave birth to tragically deformed children, the doomed drug was abruptly withdrawn. Now it is making a quiet comeback. Andrulis Pharmaceuticals of Beltsville, Md., and Pediatric Pharmaceuticals of Westfield, N.J., have asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve thalidomide for experimental use. Andrulis wants it for a clinical study of patients with bone-marrow transplants. By suppressing the immune response, thalidomide may prevent the new marrow from attacking the body...
...government announced a campaign in May 1990 to combat rising crime. Hundreds of thousands of arrests and nearly 1000 executions were reported by year...
General Norman Schwarzkopf privately has been harshly critical of the military performance of America's Arab allies. Using U.S. soldiers as the standard, he told Washington officials that only the Egyptian and Syrian armies displayed an adequate level of combat competence. But the general asserts that even the best Arab divisions were only about half as good as his own troops, who evidently rated a 10. The Soviet-trained Egyptian army, for example, was unable to adapt rapidly to fast-paced ground warfare. On one occasion Schwarzkopf had to request Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to order his troops into battle...