Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crane has made an issue of the fact that Hampers took time off from her job as Revenue Commissioner to fight and lose a court battle for certain tax deductions. Hampers says she still believes the deductions were valid...
...string pulling. (Robertson Sr., who served in the Senate from 1946 to 1966, died in 1971.) "We are going to have to do something to put this thing down," said a Robertson aide earlier this month. "It's getting out of hand." The suits dramatize Robertson's intention to fight any hint that he sought to evade combat duty in Korea. In libel cases, however, the burden of proof is on the plaintiff. It is likely to be difficult for Robertson to prove that his father did not use senatorial influence to protect him from combat...
...more AIDS viruses. Eventually, overcome by its alien product, the cell swells and dies, releasing a flood of new viruses to attack other cells, including more helper T cells and macrophages. The immune system, deprived of a crucial number of those vital T cells, is unable to direct the fight against infection. A host of opportunistic diseases, normally warded off by a healthy immune system, attacks the body. Gradually weakened by the onslaught, the AIDS victim dies, sometimes in months, but almost always within a few years of the first symptoms. By last week this appalling scenario had been played...
...California, San Francisco, cites the possible role of other infections, use of drugs, poor nutrition, stress and lack of sleep, any of which may weaken the immune system. "If the person's immune system is not compromised by such events," he says, "I believe they will be able to fight off the virus and not develop the disease...
...come as a surprise. It fits in with a pattern of using his office to undermine Supreme Court decisions he disagrees with--for instance, those guaranteeing the rights of the accused and of the oppressed. There is no reason why everyone should agree with those decisions. But the fight against them can not be led from the office of the attorney general...