Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reform is most important in the F.D.N., which has been accused of human rights violations. Reform would have a very practical military and diplomatic effect on a lot of Nicaraguans who left the country. These are middle- and working-class people who have expressed a desire to fight but who are afraid that the F.D.N. would create another dictatorship. Beyond Nicaragua, if the contras were acceptable to Latin Americans, then the Latin Americans would stop using Central America as their way to express anger...
...January 1985, after California's pension funds had taken a drubbing in the wake of Disney and Texaco greenmail payouts, Unruh persuaded managers from across the country to fight for better protection for their investments. Council members now include representatives of huge funds in California, Kansas, Illinois, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey and New York City...
...colors as they acted out a day in the life of a 10-year-old playing hookey from school. Weaving in and out of an oversized erector set for the stage, the kids and their teachers danced their interpretations of events from a city life, ranging from a gang fight to trying on a new pair of shoes...
...across the Capital, Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. echoed the rhetoric. We must teach Moammar Khadafy a lesson. Fight fire with brimstone...
...EPISODE underscores the enormity of our Catch-22. The terrorist threat is an amorphous, elusive one that leaves us few opportunities to fight back. When concrete targets avail themselves, the U.S. should strike, although in striking, we risk incurring reprisals that we are almost powerless to prevent...