Word: fight
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...outbreak to happen again at the end of this year, given that the water and sewage system is not working well. It's not going to be quick and easy to get an efficient water and sewage system fully working, so all the things that we did in the fight against cholera will certainly be needed again next year...
...provides America with a window of opportunity to engage with Iran and chart a new productive course forward. But we must act soon, we must act intelligently, and we must recognize that preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is important, but it is just one piece in the larger fight against nuclear proliferation worldwide—a fight we (and the world) must...
...than ever before. Will the public choose Jafargholi, who lives with his single mother and cat? Or Boyle, a single woman, who until recently lived with her mother and cat? Will we choose the mannish old woman or the girlish young boy? But to think that who wins this fight is up to any of us, to think that the public will be presented with unbiased representations of Boyle and Jafargholi’s talent, is to be naïve. And isn’t that what great television accomplishes—instilling in us the belief that something...
...With a committee vote on Koh's controversial nomination coming Tuesday, both camps are lobbying Senators in what has become a proxy fight for the Republican Party's approach to life in political exile. On one side are Koh's opponents, who want to harness Beck's populist appeal to stay on the offensive for a variety of causes. On the other are Koh's supporters, who want to retrench around sober messages of lower taxes, smaller government and American supremacy, and wait for public opinion to swing back in their favor. "Koh is just a surrogate" for that fight...
...Another group fears Koh may get the nod for the Supreme Court at some point in the Obama presidency and wants to bloody him now in preparation for that fight. "We have been watching and studying up on Koh for a long time," says one GOP judiciary committee staffer. "We didn't anticipate that he'd be named for legal adviser; now that he has, we've encouraged others to focus on his radical views even more." (Read "Fox News Continues Reign with Big Three...