Word: combatative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richard C. White (D-Tex.), chairman of the Personnel Subcommittee, said yesterday the purpose of registration is to provide a manpower reserve for combat, adding that because women would not be sent into combat, there is no need for them to register...
...Harvard Police have mobilized a special task force recently to combat the unusually high number of crimes in the McKinlock area of Leverett House, Saul Chafin, chief of University police, said yesterday...
...offical who asked to remain unidentified declined to say what actions B & G will take to combat Weld's mice problem...
...blast of Maria Callas and a volley of shrieks and screams. The protagonist, Francis Geminiani, a Harvard junior back home in Philadelphia for the summer, leans out his second-story window, plants a speaker on the sill in a grand gesture of defiance, and blares an opera record to combat the 7 a.m. assault. This awakens his obese next-door neighbor, Bunny Weinberger, who throws open her second-story window and screeches at him to "turn off that shitty music." Besides, she yells, one of those workers is her uncle. (Everyone, you see, is Family, and no one can invade...
...leadership was obviously intent on giving the lie to fearful Western prophecies that after Tito-by force or subterfuge-Yugoslavia might be yanked back into the Soviet orbit. Following a special session of the 28-member National Defense Council, military leaders spoke confidently of "a high degree of combat readiness in the country." Since mid-January, Defense Minister Nikola Ljubičić has kept the 259,000-strong armed forces on low-level alert and ordered the stand-ready notification of the country's 500,000 reservists...