Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confirmation. A KAL spokesman said on the p.a. system that the airliner was safely down on Sakhalin. Everyone should leave telephone numbers and await word on the reunion. Cheers filled the terminal. Another 13 hours passed before the reality came from distant Washington. Shultz, his voice quavering as he fought to control his anger, revealed the worst...
...tell her mother. But when he slapped the girl around for missing school too much, she revealed their secret. Her mother reported the story to the sheriff and left home with her daughter and a son she had had with John. For 2 ½ years, John fought molestation charges through the court system, finally paying an $800 fine and spending four years on probation. "When my daughter rejected me, that was the end of my world...
...Reagan's "fox in the chicken coop" administrators. Before he was named head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Thome Auchter served as spokesman for a construction company owned by his family that had been cited 48 times by OSHA for safety violations. Two lobbies that have fought hard against meat inspections now have former executives high in the Agriculture Department: Assistant Secretary C.W. McMillan of the National Cattlemen's Association and Deputy Secretary Richard Lyng of the American Meat Institute...
...part, Illinois Republican Governor James Thompson did neither when he was up for re-election last November, but he came close enough to defeat: his margin of victory was a mere 5,074 votes. Last week the Washington Post reported that in the middle of Thompson's hard-fought race he altered the method by which Illinois' weekly unemployment statistics are reported to the U.S. Labor Department. The gambit, which is used by other states and met with no objection from the Labor Department, conveniently maintained Illinois' unemployment-insurance payment rate at precisely the level needed...
...ignited the war in Lebanon, trying to make Lebanon a substitute homeland for the Palestinians. But the Lebanese Christians fought against this plan, and they were alone in defending their ancestral homeland...