Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...snow was amazing," said Grays Hall resident Anup R. Joshi '90 of Nepal. "I came outside and the whole ground was white." Joshi said that he is looking forward to his first snowball fight...
...Japan cut its discount rate, the interest charged on loans to commercial banks, from 3.5% to 3%. Japanese officials also agreed to cut taxes and raise spending. These stimulative measures may boost demand for imports from America. The U.S., in turn, vowed to cut its budget deficit and to fight protectionist measures...
...pursuit of these goals, France reportedly was also in the midst of negotiating an arms deal with Syria, though last week French officials vigorously denied it. Still, Interior Minister Charles Pasqua told a Saudi Arabian newspaper that there was now "real collaboration" between French and Syrian intelligence services to fight terrorism. He added that France's Syrian friends were "pained and shocked" to hear themselves accused in the Paris bombings...
Sympathy for crime victims who fight back -- even when they have clearly violated the law -- is common. Two weeks ago, a jury considering charges under the much publicized handgun ban in Oak Park, Ill., acquitted a frequently robbed gas-station owner who used a pistol to shoot at armed thieves as they fled. Earlier this year a New York City judge dismissed weapon-possession charges against a subway token clerk who had killed a mugger with an unlicensed...
...mercurial Libyan also called on Irish youth to "fight to liberate" Northern Ireland. Infuriated, the Dublin government instructed its diplomats to protest Gaddafi's statement to the Libyan People's Bureau in Rome. Meanwhile, in farflung Chicago, four members of a street gang that espouses a bizarre brand of Islam were indicted on charges of conspiring with Libyan officials to launch terrorist attacks inside...