Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...directors of University Health Services (UHS) say they can best fight AIDS within Harvard's population by teaching people how to avoid the virus. Pointing to earlier experiences with sexually transmitted diseases, they say the University community usually has low levels of infection and responds quickly to educational campaigns on health...
...believe that most Harvard students do understand that there is a danger involved in risky sexual behavior. They understand there is a risk, and they avoid the risk," Wacker says...
...connotations of the terms are reversed. The poor are viewed as lazy; President Reagan reinforced that image when, holding the Washington Post want ads, he asked how anyone could not have a job with all those openings. Presidential candidates and other politicians desperately try to avoid the appearance of defending the poor, presumably for fear of losing their elections. Defending the poor is now tantamount to defending the stereotypical welfare cheat...
...meantime, students are being warned by their professors to walk in pairs at night. Campus police have distributed two leaflets which give a physical description of the assailant and advice on how to avoid rape. Students are very conscious of the danger and are walking home and jogging in pairs, said Vernon T. Silver, a reporter for the Brown Daily Herald...
...briefly added an endorsement from the Columbus, Ohio, NAACP to his union support, but that was before the group's president reluctantly reversed course under pressure from national headquarters. Melanie J. Mitchell said she was acting to avoid jeopardizing the chapter's tax-exempt status as a non-profit organization...