Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Republican political consultant Jack Flannery commented that "there's very little sign of life in the campaign yet." He said Kariotis faces not only an uphill fight against a popular Democratic incumbent, but against indifference from the media, which he said "has decided that the action is in the [Joyce] Hampers[Robert]Crane race" for State Treasurer...
...some estimates, marijuana, with a potential street value of $2,000 a plant, is Oregon's largest cash crop. Yet polls show that the proposition is unlikely to pass. Legalizing pot, opponents argue, would make it harder to fight abuse of other drugs and would turn Oregon into America's largest distributor of the weed...
Brought to bay in a courtroom, the Mafia bosses have adopted an unusual defense: rather than fight the Government's efforts to prove the existence of La Cosa Nostra, they admit it. "This case is not about whether there is a Mafia," thundered Defense Attorney Samuel Dawson. "Assume it. Accept it. There is." Nevertheless, he told the jury, "just because a person is a member of the Mafia doesn't mean he has committed the charged crime or even agreed to commit the charged crime." Dawson depicted the Commission as a sort of underworld businessmen's round table that approves...
...number of Congressmen, the term drug war is not to be taken lightly. As the House argued over its bill on drug abuse two weeks ago, several lawmakers employed the rhetoric of war in discussing the nation's fight against narcotics. Republican E. Clay Shaw of Florida called drugs "the biggest threat that we have ever had to our national security." South Carolina Republican Thomas Hartnett declared them "a threat worse than any nuclear warfare or any chemical warfare waged on any battlefield...
Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said it would be "very difficult" to round up enough votes for Reagan, and indicated the president will not wage an all-out fight if it appears certain he will lose...