Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck, higher education officials have fought these policies on the grounds that they jeopardize academic freedom. Furthermore, the educators argue, such restrictions weaken scientific research, handicap the American economy and seriously damage national security in the long...
...veto further civil rights legislation and which appears all too willing to repeat the stupidities of the past. I see a struggle which takes place over decade, and in which the gains of the sometimes violent and enthusiastic protests of the past are easily lost, if they are not fought for again and again, every...
...Harvard heavyweight crew team fought a pair of opponents yesterday: Brown and water as tumultuous as Ed Meese's Department of Justice...
...King's official family, the one who appeared on television the day after the shooting wearing a bloody shirt and boldly -- and inaccurately -- claiming that it was he, Jesse, who cradled the dying Martin in his arms. Now exactly two decades after the death of the man who fought for the right to vote, Jackson is demanding the political rights that come with those votes. And so, for the first time in the nation's history, a major political party was grappling with one of the biggest what-ifs of all: What if Democratic voters actually nominate a black...
...state of Israel prides itself on being the only true democracy in the Middle East, enthusiastically relishing the slings and harrows of hard-fought elections, freedom of assembly and an aggressively independent press. In keeping with that spirit, the Israeli government initially raised few obstacles to the surge of foreign reporters that poured into the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip when violent demonstrations broke out there four months ago. The regular contingent of 250 to 300 writers, photographers, television cameramen and technicians swelled to more than 1,200, all of them racing across the dusty hills...