Word: fought
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Against Queens, Harvard fought the same demons. The Crimson contained the Knights to five goals at the half, trailing by just...
...reapply for admission. Finally, it would have granted to Haitians and many other Central Americans who fled repressive governments the same status that is currently granted to Nicaraguans and Cubans who fled similar circumstances. The Republican congressional leadership is opposed to the bill, and although the administration has fought for it, its future seems bleak...
...this latest Israeli response is unlikely to be decisive. The continuing struggle will be fought without high-technology ordnance. It will be an effort to prevent the assembling of large, volatile crowds, minimize provocative incidents and gain the intelligence required by sniper teams and elite special forces. The key weapons will be intelligence assets and movement controls. Then it will be up to the police and security forces--and a few expert marksmen. The heavy weaponry will be there, but it will be in backup, a reminder of Israel's determination to defend its people...
...from M.I.T.--Kilby flunked the admissions test--used a new chemical etching technique. It could not only print transistors on silicon wafers directly, like patterns in a rug, but also lay down the critical connecting tracks between them, simplifying the chips' manufacture and increasing their speed. Fairchild and TI fought a bitter patent battle that Fairchild ultimately won. But the gentlemanly Kilby and equally gentlemanly Noyce, who died in 1990 at age 62, were always content to call themselves co-inventors...
...speak out on partisan bickering during the fiercest, most personal manifestation of it two years ago, but he wants to end it now, when partisan bickering could clarify the issues. In the last debate, Bush took credit for passing a bill allowing patients to sue HMOs, when he actually fought it. But when he's not falsely claiming credit, he is glossing over the details of what it would really take to deliver love - say, in the form of prescription drugs - to ordinary Americans. He seeks refuge in the mantra, "I trust the people, not the government...