Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wants to work in a fire house where there are gays," Jackson said, adding that when his co-workers say "Kill gays" in front of him their harassment goes unpunished Jackson said he is often forced to wash dishes in the Fire Department instead of being sent of fight fires...
...members of the Republican minority in the ornate Old Senate Chamber, the President began by quoting from the same folk ballad that he used in acknowledging defeat at the 1976 Republican Convention: "I am wounded but not slain. I will rest awhile. But I will rise and fight again." Then Reagan uttered six words that Presidents use sparingly at best: "I beg you for your vote." The G.O.P. Senators, awkwardly divided between loyalists and mavericks, at first responded to the President's plaintive appeal with stiff formality. Then one of the rebels, Senator Steven Symms of Idaho, suggested that...
...larger issue underlying the veto fight was serious: Should Congress have the right to mandate the construction and repair of individual roads and bridges? Almost all the money in the $88 billion, five-year authorization bill is passed on to the states according to complex allocation formulas. But legislators know that it is hard to take credit for such indirect funding in a 30-second campaign spot. So in 1982 Congress decided to build a few roads and add a few expressway exits on their own. Thus was born the demonstration project, a legislative fiction that claimed these congressional highways...
Baby M. is awarded to her father, but the custody battle promises to continue. So does the fight over surrogate parenthood...
...protests fell on deaf ears. Parliament passed a controversial bill aimed at stripping the church of control of much of its property. At stake are 325,000 acres of farmland that the government wants for state-run collective farms. While church leaders have vowed to fight the legislation in the courts if necessary, some observers say the stage is now set for a second round of bargaining that could end in a face-saving compromise acceptable to both sides...