Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tufts rebounded to take a 2-1 lead in the third set, but the Crimson fought back to take a 4-2 lead...
...visitors fought back to grab a 9-7 advantage, and Lem slowly started inserting some starters back into the line...
...director took some unprecedented and risky steps. He brought talented Jewish scientists into the institute. He began building a corps of young scientists and selecting projects based on their scientific value rather than the political standing of scientists. He fought for access to computers. Most important, and politically the riskiest, he introduced a potent measure of democracy into the Soviet program. "Before Sagdeyev," says Louis Friedman, executive director of the U.S. Planetary Society, "the Soviet space program was closed. Now they talk about their plans. They even argue in public. He has materially changed the way they do major projects...
...three days last year, the Soviets fought to save the nuclear submarine that had been crippled by an explosion and fire. In the end, the struggle was lost; the crew was evacuated, and the 426-ft. Yankee I-class sub plunged 18,000 ft. to the bottom of the Atlantic some 600 miles east of Bermuda, taking with it as many as 16 SS-N-6 ballistic missiles, each tipped with two 500-kiloton nuclear warheads. But if the vessel is gone, it has not been forgotten. Since the sinking last Oct. 6, Soviet ships have watched over the site...
...Crusaders fought back to close the spikers advantage to 8-7. However, the Eastern Nazarene squad failed to muster another point against Harvard's tenacious defense...