Word: combated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leading AIDS experts were among the more than 2,500 doctors and scientists in attendance, they bore few encouraging tidings. Speaker after speaker acknowledged that neither a vaccine nor a cure is in sight for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, the deadly disease that destroys the body's ability to combat infection. Moreover, they said, AIDS is still spreading and poses a threat around the globe. Among the findings reported...
When Time Inc. decided in early 1984 to attempt to combat rising illiteracy in America, recalls Toni Fay, director of corporate community relations, "Our ^ research indicated that there was a lack of high-interest materials. We thought we could motivate students to read through a careful use of TIME." Ester Connelly, who manages the Time Education Program in Yardley, Pa., was charged with devising a curriculum outline and one-day training course that would enable volunteers to teach reading and vocabulary through use of the magazine's advertisements, headlines and captions, as well as its articles...
...accompanied Russell to eleven college, Olympic and pro parades, likes to tick off the essential reasons he considers Bird the "best total player" ever. "Attitude. Determination. Understanding. Hustle. He's also got some talent." So much of it, according to Supersub Bill Walton, 33, that teammates have to combat a powerful impulse just to stand and gawk. A sizable but unsturdy slab of alabaster, Walton was once breathtakingly Bird-like. Now he is the handiest extra man on an exceedingly deep team that chanced to lose just one home game this interminable season. Bostonians are poised to measure Bird, Robert...
...Cantabs are quickly learning how to combat Harvard's selfish manipulation of the housing market. In last November's municipal elections, 50 percent of Cambridge's voters told Harvard Real Estate, Inc. (HRE) to stop selling rent-controlled buildings to professors on a priority basis. Because of owner-occupancy rules, Harvard's house sales only serve to decontrol apartments reserved for low-income tenants...
...world, as misconduct subject to official censure. In the last five years, Harvard has created at least three committees, one within the College administration, one for the College's disciplinary board and one for an academic department, whose purpose is to raise awareness of and work to combat sexual harassment on campus...