Word: combatting
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...raids are an anomaly in recent U.S. history. Rarely are American armed forces used against its own citizens. This strategy begs us to ask whether some other less excessive method could be used to combat the domestic drug industry--and makes us question why the President hasn't sought such a plan...
...combat this "inertia," ACT-UP has sponsoreddemonstrations at research facilities, negotiatedwith drug companies and has been involved withHarvard's statistical data center, an organizationthat receives clinical trial results from all overthe country, Murphy said
...biographer Stephen Ambrose's words. Ambrose goes further, suggesting that Ike is destined to be ranked "with Wilson and the Roosevelts as one of the four truly great Presidents of the 20th century." He is the most famous American soldier of all time. He commanded 4.5 million men in combat, more than any other man in history...
After all, American troops have not yet engaged the Iraqis in combat. And while the New Left emerged after years of military build-ups in Vietnam, the Middle East crisis is only three months...
Raising taxes to make it seem they're doing something about the deficit may be a wise (if cynical) political move, but it does little to combat the mess into which the budget process has descended. As the deficit-reduction package of 1982 showed, increases in revenue are rarely used to combat the deficit--they usually end up as a justification for more pork-barrel spending...