Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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North, who was fired from his job as a National Security Council aide in late 1986, said: "I did not commit any crime. I intend to fight the allegations of wrongdoing for as long as necessary...
Schulman said that when he became the nation's first full-time government AIDS discrimination attorney in 1985, he had a small office and no legal precedents to follow--but hundreds of discrimination complaints. He said he realized his main task was to fight ignorance...
...critical shortage of nurses threatens to cripple the health- care system, as R. N. s fight low pay, low status and long hours...
Mayor Coleman Young announced last November that the city would step up its fight against drug dealers. "We're going to hit them and hit them hard," Young declared. He beefed up narcotics squads and ordered police to shut down at least a dozen crack houses a day. Police began soliciting tips from citizens on a "dope hotline." In December and January, Detroit cops increased warrants and arrests on drug charges by 375% over the same period a year earlier. Last week a grand jury returned indictments against 22 people allegedly involved in the Chambers brothers' drug ring, an organization...
...have more than tripled the number of people arrested," he said last week, "but prison space hasn't tripled. We are putting an additional burden on an already overcrowded system." Young also blames the Federal Government for failing to stanch the flow of cocaine into the U.S: "We're fighting an impossible fight if our city and other cities continue to be inundated by this drug...