Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pleased with the way we came back in the third period," Cleary said. "The team showed that they've got a little bit of fight in them and that's a good sign...
State feminist leaders challenged women to fight poverty and to run for public office during the National Organization for Women's (NOW) annual convention held in Cambridge this weekend...
President Reagan also met with Helms to reassure him about the nomination. Reagan also chatted amiably with Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., who led the successful fight to defeat the first nominee for the court vacancy, Robert H. Bork. Reagan's second nominee, appellate judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, asked the president to withdraw his name last Saturday after Ginsburg's admission of past marijuana...
...public appearences, he less frequently refers to racial issues, saying that "yesterday's fights" have been won and that those victories now must be protected and implemented. Today's fight, Jackson has said, is the battle against an unfair and troubled economy...
Ginsburg will need all the equanimity he can muster as he prepares for what could be yet another explosive Supreme Court confirmation fight. Last week Ronald Reagan nominated the 41-year-old jurist as an Associate Justice of the court. Ginsburg, like Reagan's first choice, the defeated Robert Bork, is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Last month, as one Senator after another denounced Bork's ideological views, the President promised that his next nominee would be just as objectionable to liberals as Bork had been. Reagan may have made good...