Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inflamed by the conflicting reports surrounding Linder's death. Eyewitness accounts reaching both Managua and the U.S. suggested that Linder and some government workers were measuring the water flow of a stream in a northern village when a band of contras struck. The contras claim that a fire fight ensued, a distinct possibility since the Sandinista leadership encourages Nicaraguans to carry weapons in war zones in self-defense. The rebels regard anyone armed or in uniform as a combatant, though the Sandinistas view many of the same people as civilians. It remained unclear whether Linder, who sometimes carried a pistol...
...everybody has the attitude of 'Let's fight those men,'" Swett says. For a lot of people "it's just helpful to sit and talk with other women about their common experiences at Radcliffe," she adds...
...billion buyout of Dome Petroleum by the Canadian arm of Chicago-based Amoco, fifth largest U.S. oil company. Dome's board, faced with $4.9 billion in debt, last week accepted the offer. But Toronto-based TransCanada PipeLines, which underbid Amoco by $600 million, vows to keep up the fight...
...that helps sort out the crowded field, especially given Iowa's distressed farm economy. The difference is that second-tier candidates are all vying for the support of organized labor, which is unflinching in its protectionist fervor. That is why Gephardt stands to gain from the trade fight in Congress. Labor is unlikely to forget that Hart strongly opposed an earlier version of the Gephardt amendment when he was in the Senate. His detailed proposals on trade, which range from modifications in the antitrust laws to a new international accord on exchange rates, are still ideas in search...
Commercial banks fight investment firms over the 1933 Glass- Steagall Act, as old- fashioned bank lending loses out to Wall Street' s creative financial techniques. In the balance may be the fate of the $2.7 trillion banking industry. -- The U. S. and Japan scramble to defuse trade tensions. -- Meet George Soros, Wall Street' s most successful investor...