Word: fight
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...like every other fighter and do it one more time. That's obviously when it gets dangerous.' OSCAR DE LA HOYA, world-champion boxer, on plans to retire before he is permanently injured. His upcoming match against Filipino Manny Pacquiao is expected to be the most profitable fight in boxing history...
...week's winner is based on the relative importance of each fight and by how much the winner takes each round...
...least 27,000 acres (11,000 hectares) in Southern California, forcing thousands from their homes. Despite the state's budget woes, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who declared states of emergency in two counties on Oct. 14, assured residents in a press conference, "We always get the money somehow to fight the fires...
...difference in the affairs of their daily life for a considerable length of time," said famously taciturn President Calvin Coolidge in one of his more long-winded (and accurate) assessments of the national scene. The Federal Government, in other words, was a kind of 90-lb. weakling in the fight against the Depression monster...
Anger, tinged with desperation, is driving some to fight on. György Gergely, 55, says he has resigned from the factory because he can't wait to see whether it will reopen. Now he's hoping for work at a poultry operation in the city of Sárvár, 48 miles (77 km) away. "I have a family to support," he says. "I need to earn money...