Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union's impending withdrawal from Afghanistan, set for February 15, will afford Bush another opportunity to demonstrate his foreign policy objectives. When the Red Army tanks roll out of the Afghan capital after a nearly 10-year-long occupation, rebel factions are expected to overthrow the government and fight among themselves for leadership of the country...
...have a feeling that Baker is just too much of a politician to kind of put his neck out the way that [former Secretary of State George] Schultz did and fight on principle in this way," Goldman says...
...Crimson played tentatively. The perimeter players were threatened and did not fight back...
...distinctive, daffy humor and a rhythmic sense that is honed until it gleams. -- A fight for control of Paris' new opera reaches fortissimo...
...fight against illiteracy has become such a crusade in the U.S. that another enemy seems to have slipped past the ramparts while everyone has been learning to read. Bruce R. Vogeli, chairman of the department of mathematics and science education at Columbia University Teachers College, calls this foe the "major untouched educational issue of the decade." Science writer Martin Gardner (The Relativity Explosion) finds it a "problem that is getting worse and worse." Its name: innumeracy, or the inability to understand numbers and their meaning...