Word: fighting
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Washington is not the only capital where health officials and politicians have been struggling to shape a policy to fight AIDS. So far, 51,535 AIDS cases have been reported to the Geneva-based World Health Organization by 112 countries, not including some hard-hit African countries. As many as 10 million people are believed to be AIDS carriers, and according to some estimates, 100 million could have the virus by the end of the century. Many governments, mostly in Western Europe, have responded far more swiftly and decisively than the U.S. to the deadly challenge by developing public education...
...banker's jargon may have been off-putting to Reagan. Greenspan, on the other hand, has a gift for rendering economic concepts in the kind of uncomplicated language beloved by the folksy President. Greenspan may try to coax Reagan, for example, to accept a tax increase in the fight to cut the federal budget deficit...
...street and thanking him for what he had done. Volcker was sitting in a coffee shop during an outing in Montana when a local rancher in a Stetson and faded jeans suddenly recognized him and ( ambled up. It looked as if the cowboy might be aiming to pick a fight over monetary policy, but instead he pulled out a $10 bill and asked Volcker to autograph...
...list of colleges that have seen racial brawls this year is long. At Columbia University, long considered a bastion of student liberalism, a small-scale race riot broke out in March, when a Black and a white student hurled insults at each other and initiated a fight that involved at least a dozen students...
Graham said that her experience at Harvard has given her insight into the interests of the University, and she says she will fight for the needs of the community because of Harvard's clear intention to "suck up everything around them...