Word: fight
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...great friend Kay Yow, the Hall of Fame basketball coach who died at 66 on Jan. 24 after a long, courageous fight with breast cancer, just had a way of dealing with the disease. She fought it for more than two decades--Kay got her first diagnosis in 1987--but never played the pity role. She always gravitated to other people and asked them how they were holding up. Kay wanted to help others with their battles, even though she was fighting the toughest...
...established a cancer-research fund in her name, and I encourage you to visit JimmyV.org to learn more about it. Let's fight this disease with energy, bravery and grace. Just...
HCGHAC members said they believe this appointment is critical because the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator is responsible for leading the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a comprehensive plan to fight HIV/AIDS that is often touted as a major success of the Bush administration...
There are always those on both the right and the left who are itching for a fight over cultural issues. Conservatives have been claiming since before the election that Obama would be "the most pro-abortion President in history," and they are eager for evidence to back up that charge. After Obama overturned the so-called abortion gag rule late last Friday - which had prohibited foreign nongovernmental family-planning groups from receiving any U.S. funds if they provided abortions or even lobbied for abortion rights in their country - House GOP leader John Boehner shot out a press release titled "President...
...have to wait a few weeks for that to happen. As one progressive policy analyst noted, inserting the Medicaid provision into the stimulus package "was kind of like bringing up marriage on the third date. You know it's going to come up eventually, so why start a fight at the very beginning, before you've gotten anywhere...