Word: fought
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BUSH In Texas he opposed expanding the Children's Health Insurance Program. He fought the Patients' Bill of Rights. His federal plan will cover less than half the insurance costs for most poor families...
...Tomorrow I might well be the dad of the Governors of the second and fourth largest states in the Union. But there will be no feeling of personal vindication, no feeling of anything other than pride in two honest boys who, for the right reasons, want to serve--who fought the good fight...
...evangelistic empire is in ruins, done in by sloppy or crooked management and a sex scandal. But that's not the end of Tammy Faye Bakker's troubles. Tammy Faye has fought drug addiction and cancer, seen two husbands jailed, become a cruelly mocked creature, working the far fringes of our celebrity nation. But her infamous eyelashes are intact, and so is her good nature. Maybe this documentary is a bit too enthralled by her, but she emerges from it a game girl, a gay activist and a curiously sympathetic figure...
...fought back...
...Although the two countries have fought two wars over Kashmir and went to the brink of a third last summer, both also have compelling reasons to settle the dispute. Pakistan's basket-case economy is in desperate need of Western assistance, and Washington has made clear that this is no longer a Cold War entitlement - aid now is dependent on easing tensions with India and reining in terrorism. For India, there's the simple fact that the insurgency in Kashmir is bleeding its defense budget, while a military solution remains as elusive as ever. And Vajpayee's Hindu nationalist government...