Word: skirmished
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Call it the St. Valentine's Day Skirmish...
...rule debate is only the latest skirmish in a war over abortion that could injure Bush severely. The ultimate battle will be joined if the Supreme Court overturns the landmark abortion-rights decision, Roe v. Wade, before next year's election -- an action some pro-choice activists would ironically welcome. Planned Parenthood, for one, is eager to throw the issue into the political arena as quickly as possible, and so is urging the high court to consider immediately Pennsylvania's restrictive abortion law, on the assumption that the conservative Justices appointed by Bush and Ronald Reagan would use the occasion...
Even those who reject Douglas' perspective might reasonably conclude that the long war against the busybodies has to be won -- if it is to be won -- a skirmish at a time, tiny battles at the perimeter of individual privacy and choice. One hero in this ongoing conflict is Teresa Fischette, 38, a ticket agent for Continental Airlines at Boston's Logan International Airport. Eager to establish a new image for its ground personnel, the carrier last May decreed that its female ticket agents must wear makeup. Fischette refused, was fired, but was then offered a job where she would...
Vietnam veterans won another skirmish last week in the battle over Agent Orange, but the government continues to hold its ground. For 14 years now, veterans' groups have charged that the herbicide used to defoliate the jungle canopy was toxic to soldiers. More than 35,000 have filed claims for diseases like cancer and birth defects in their children. Last week the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that a limited number of vets who contracted peripheral neuropathy, a nervous disease that causes numbness and tingling, within 10 years of their service will be allowed disability payments...
...Post's plight was the latest skirmish in the prolonged battle for survival in New York City's fiercely competitive newspaper market, increasingly an oddity in the era of one-paper monopolies and bland corporate chains. Four papers -- the broadsheet New York Times (circ. 1.1 million) and three tabloids, the Post (504,000), the New York Daily News (1.2 million) and New York Newsday (230,000) -- managed to make it through the booming 1980s. But now the city's economy is in a tailspin, and the tabloids are being dragged down with it. "I don't think there's room...