Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...During a fight that broke out near the MBTA subway station Saturday night, Frank Gavin was stabbed from the behind. Gavin was released from the hospital after receiving treatment for facial wounds. His age and address have not been released by police...
...long-running battle for control of the network has featured all the drama and suspense of a potboiler mini-series. It began in January, when Helms' Fairness- in-Media group launched a proxy fight to be "Dan Rather's boss." Then Turner, the cable-TV king, stunned CBS in April with a $5 billion takeover...
Tobacco, leather products, canned fruit, insurance and telephone equipment. That sounds like a bizarre shopping list, but those are the U.S. exports that the Reagan Administration has taken up as part of its month-old fight to put an end to unfair trade practices and open foreign markets for American companies. Last week the list grew longer, when the White House accused the Common Market and South Korea of more unfair trading procedures...
Despite encouragement from the WHO and other groups, the fight against the spread of AIDS is not yet a worldwide effort. In India, for example, where the government insists there have not been any confirmed cases, health officials are at odds over whether to take preventive action. Dr. D.B. Bisht, director- general of Indian government health services, complains that other "high- priority programs will suffer because of pressure to divert funds from them to anti-AIDS programs. We can't afford this, since there is no evidence of AIDS." Dr. I.S. Gilada, secretary of the Indian Health Organization, considers this...
Roosevelt and his men rode a scow downriver for three days, pushing through the ice jams. They came upon the thieves' camp and captured them without a fight. A practical man would have obeyed the custom of the territory and hanged the three right there. Some Dakotans were mystified by the course Roosevelt chose. He struggled on for ten more days, downriver and cross- country in brutal cold, standing guard through the nights, until he found a sheriff. He handed his prisoners over to the law. Much exertion over a rowboat. Much exertion, even manic bravado, in behalf...