Word: fought
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...various forces lined up against the environment are, at this year's Congressional battles will be fought on the issues of tion have a good measure of bipartisan support for the amending of the Clean Air and Water Acts. The great likelihood that this year's Congressional battles will be fought on the issues of the budget military spending and the economy--and the general dissatisfaction with the economy--mean environmental issues will get short shrift and could be fodder for political deals...
...Radcliffe in the early 1960s--as "women who were never kept out of Lamont. "Any woman who can read and write is de facto a feminist," she says, adding crisply. "Some of them should take a trip to Afghanistan if they want to see what wars are really being fought over...
...would subsidize local co-ops, church-sponsored housing, and small farmers rather than lumbering auto makers. Lekachman calls for closing tax loopholes--which channel resources into unproductive uses--and redirecting the proceeds to pay for the NIA and for expanded social welfare services. Inflation should be fought not by wage concessions but by controls on oligopolistic price-setting. But Lekachman is not a naive statist. He argues that controls should not be put on competitive sectors of the economy like retailing, and he favors experimentation in decentralized planning methods, particularly workers' self-management...
...hard-fought battle with the University of Maryland in the first round of the two-day tournament, the top-seeded ruggers came from behind to score an impressive 24-13 victory. But in the second round, feisty Princeton jumped ahead of Harvard on a penalty kick early in the first period and never looked back...
...land on J.C. Penney's. But in the Falklands, we have a war-if it came to that-that would presumably be conducted in what used to be the great colonial Elsewhere, the distant and exotic battlefield that soldiers sail away to. It would be a regressive war fought for the most part with means that seem almost primitive-ships at sea, for example, and marines...