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Word: combatting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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These seniors agreed that, although the Middle East crisis has made them slightly apprehensive about combat service, the importance of military service is more apparent than ever before. They added that they hoped the crisis would cause other Harvard students to review their feelings about ROTC...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: ROTC Students Are Ready To Serve | 9/29/1990 | See Source »

...minute, I gave the following response: If my government ordered me to go, I would use every legal means to postpone or avoid my draft, including a deferment to finish my education. If I had to go, I would, but I would try to avoid a combat assignment. If I was assigned to combat, I would fight to the best of my ability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: War May Be Necessary | 9/20/1990 | See Source »

...historians, it was an unprecedented attack of one Arab country on another. To the Kuwaiti people, it was the first test of our military in a combat situation since our country's independence, 30 years...

Author: By B. A. E., | Title: It's a Nightmare for My Relatives Still Trapped in Kuwait | 9/19/1990 | See Source »

...Democratic race for state treasurer, we give our support to House Speaker George Keverian '53 of Everett, Mass. Keverian, to be sure, has been sadly ineffective in his last year on the job, repeatedly failing in his efforts to pressure his colleagues into responsible action to combat the state budget deficit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: George Keverian | 9/18/1990 | See Source »

That the U.S. could "clean the clocks" of Iraq in combat, but then warns that the operation would be bloody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talking Heads Sweepstakes | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

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