Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perle's departure from the Pentagon will free him to complete a novel that will show "how Government policy battles are fought out." Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger has persuaded Perle to stay in touch as a consultant, but concedes that "this place won't be the same without Richard." Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger agrees, noting sardonically, "I'm glad he's leaving, but his departure lowers discernibly the average IQ of this Administration...
Blake hit again midway through the second overtime, driving the baseline for a banker and a 62-60 Springfield lead. Then Cambridge senior Lance Dottin (17 points) fought back, sinking two free throws with :08 left to send the contest into a third overtime...
Other less heralded players have fought personal battles to get to this championship. They are perhaps epitomized by defenseman Butch Cutone. The Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 1984, a leg tumor felled the Arlington product his sophomore year...
...battle with substance abuse was fought more than a decade ago, and she made sure that the cure was contagious. "Sometimes," she says, "I'm almost sorry for people who haven't been alcoholic, because I know things that a person who's never been sick doesn't know." In 1982 a clinic was established in her name, and she offers a series of case histories of the famous and the obscure who entered the place as emotional basket cases and emerged as feisty, drug-free graduates. There are no miracles here, but there is a collective refusal to succumb...
...ride out a phony report that it caused impotence, and France's margarine industry, the victim of gossip that the lower-price spread was full of dangerous contaminants. Kapferer thinks French housewives got behind the margarine rumor as an excuse to keep buying butter. One margarine company fought back with an ad slogan describing the story as the "rumor that costs you dearly...