Word: combat
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PSLM' s efforts to combat the use of sweatshop labor in the production of University apparel over the last year were highlighted during a slide show presentation that referred to the March "Rally for Justice." Event organizers also praised the group's continuing efforts urging the University to disclose factory locations that produce Harvard paraphernalia...
Passing a joint bill with a vote of 59-3 and one abstention, the council resolved to combat homophobia in the wake of the incidents of vandalism in the Houses...
...Other kids move to slap Ramon on his leg, head, combat boot...
...problem for teachers and administrators has been to combat entrenched stereotypes of all the houses. "House A tends to view itself as a mini-BB and N [Buckingham, Browne and Nichols, a private high school in Cambridge] and Fundamental wants to be Matignon [a Catholic high school in Cambridge]," notes bilingual program teacher Arnold Clayton. "The Academy's reputation is that it is a house for foreigners and immigrants. But we've had the salutatorian the past two years...
Last weekend, stenciled white fish began appearing next to drains around the River Houses, part of a local high school student's effort to combat pollution in the Charles River...