Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans fight for the opportunity to go to Cambridge and Oxford, students at those prestigious British institutions are competing for the chance to make the opposite journey...
...have a student a few years ahead of you so you don't get much intellectual help. There, you got a lot of enthusiasm from people writing books who are interested in their fields. I really miss that personally. I'm wandering around here by myself. You have to fight to get contact--it's different at Oxford and Cambridge where it's part of the system," she says...
Getting out from behind the restrictive pulpit was even better than losing a watch, to Jesse's and the crowd's thinking, so he used the fight as an excuse to glide to the right side of the stage, his wingtips over the edge and his volume equal to the task of overriding the debate on the opposite...
Northwest Airlines has apparently decided it is better to switch than fight: as of April 23, the fifth largest U.S. airline will be the first major carrier to ban smoking on all flights within North America. The ban goes beyond federal regulations, scheduled to take effect the same day, that will outlaw smoking on domestic flights of two hours or less. Northwest executives concede that the policy may drive away some puffing passengers, but they believe that many zealous nonsmokers will become new customers...
...bestow a career-boosting mystique that glows past retirement on a newspaper reporter's resume. Like the Oscar, a Pulitzer is good for business, instantly improving the reputation of a small or medium-size paper or ratifying the status of a titan. In short, it is a glory to fight for, and journalists...