Word: combatting
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Graham is not allowed to comment to the press under the terms of his nomination process, but according to spokesperson for the OMB Chris Ullman, Graham intents to combat the conclusions of the report when he is again able to speak publicly...
...opposition to Graham's nomination may come in part from his critics' fears that his research uses scientific methods that are hard to combat but may be influenced by subtle value judgments that are not easily shown as being biased...
...Brooks, the show is about more than that. This onetime combat engineer in the European theater in World War II is still satirizing Hitler, without apologies. "You can't compete with a despot on a soapbox," he notes. "The best thing is to make him ludicrous." And now he may be seeing more of himself in the wacky show-biz satire he wrote more than 30 years ago. "It's the story of a caterpillar who becomes a butterfly--that's Leo Bloom," says Brooks. "And that's me. A little kid from Brooklyn who finally made it across...
...relationship like the one Long Island landscape designer Jane Lappin has with her ex-husband, carpenter David Robertson. The couple was fighting viciously by the end of their four-year marriage. The divorce proceedings only exacerbated their mutual hostility. "I would rather go back for another year of combat in Vietnam than go through another divorce," says David. "It was just horrible." Both were concerned about the effect their animosity might have on John, 3 at the time of their divorce...
...plane safely down, touched a tear from his eye as he walked off the plane and into a heroic cacophony of cheers and music. But he was all smiles as he wrapped his arms around his girlfriend Roxanne Faustino and spun her around in a gesture as old as combat itself...