Word: foe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During its less than 30 minutes of debate, the Senate heard Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), a foe of the raise, proclaim that the vote shows the American people that "you can fight City Hall and you can take on the Congress of the United States with all its legerdemain and all its legislative ability...
...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...
...ratio. That is still a solid edge, yet the assumption of the West is that it must prepare for only a defensive war. Traditionally, military experts assert that an attacking force must have at least triple the strength of the defending foe to be confident of victory...
...heavier weights, 158-pounder Tim Kierstead slipped out a 5-2 win, and John Willoughby at 177 lbs. executed an awe-inspiring take-down to come through with the same score. Heavyweight Dwight Cooper pinned his foe three minutes and eight seconds into the match...
Well, yes. But it is also becoming evident that cholesterol can be either foe or friend, depending on the way it travels through the body. Cholesterol's sinister image derives from the fact that much of the substance is swept through the bloodstream by potentially damaging carrier particles called LDLs (for low-density lipoproteins). LDLs are called "bad" cholesterol because an excess of cholesterol carried by them can lead to the buildup of harmful deposits in the arteries. The other cholesterol carriers, known as HDLs (for high-density lipoproteins), are considered "good" because, far from being killers, they may actually...