Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secretary said the "moral difference" between the two superpowers forces the U.S. to develop SDI and bolster its military arsenal to make it clear to the Soviets that "it would be in their national interest not to fight and not to launch an attack...
...Huddleston defeat taught campaign consultants another lesson as well. "An attack unanswered," says Squier, "is an attack agreed to." In other words, you had better fight back. In Louisiana's Senate race, Republican Henson Moore's ad campaign uses a sleek series of voter-in-the-street encounters to ask the significance of the number 1,083. After a series of wild guesses -- a new tax form? the year the Normans conquered England? -- a narrator supplies the answer: the number of floor votes Democratic Candidate John Breaux has missed in 14 years in the House of Representatives...
...secretary said the "moral difference" between the two superpowers forces the U.S. to develop SDI and bolster its military arsenal to make it clear to the Soviets that "it would be in their national interest not to fight and not to launch an attack...
...Chicago White Sox threw the World Series in 1919, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis barred the guilty players for life. This courageous decision helped usher in a new era of popularity and prosperity for baseball, as public confidence in the game was restored. The same courage is needed now to fight the players' unions, which are blocking random drug testing...
...Pakistanis' revised version also seemed less than satisfactory. Many experts doubted that the failed generator had precipitated the fire fight and suspected that the Pakistanis were trying to cover up a bungled commando operation. But in the end, the Pakistanis may simply have decided that it was better to risk the lives of some passengers on the ground than to allow the aircraft to take...