Word: combatting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...good idea. Any ruling that forces the Army to show more flexibility to its new mothers could also bring changes in the way the military deploys them--changes that could be a setback for hard-won gains in the fight to make women full partners in military roles, including combat...
...pilots hammered the final nail in Eastern Airlines' corporate coffin in a strike in 1989. The majority of American's pilots served in the military, and many seem to relish the notion of a dogfight with their famously pugnacious boss. "A lot of these guys have been in combat," says strike chairman Matthew Field of the APA. "If he wants combat, we'll give him combat...
...combat the problem, the USGS is deploying detectors around volcanoes so that air-traffic controllers can be alerted when an ash cloud belches forth. While this could go a long way toward making the skies safer, the business of setting up the instruments is going slowly. Currently, the faa, which funds the project, is devoting only $2 million a year to it, barely enough to equip two volcanoes. At that rate, it would take 275 years before all the world's active peaks were covered...
...wishes to combat racism, one cannot do it by creating a multicultural student center. What the proponents of such a center do not realize is that racism is a philosophical issue, and that philosophically--wittingly or not--they are on the side of the racists...
...wishes to combat racism, one can only do it through reason and individualism. But to uphold reason and individualism requires a great deal of thought and intellectual honesty, and one must start by rejecting the multiculturalist premise that the individual is determined by his race...