Word: combated
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Knaul said that to combat the inequality in cancer treatment between developed and developing nations, Harvard will launch the Task Force for Expanded Cancer Care and Control in the Developing World. The task force will draw its membership from HMS, HSPH, HGEI, and Dana Farber...
...association tests, from other races and various skin tones to a sexuality IAT. Again, FlyBy wonders what these tests seek to achieve. Such a program builds itself only on the ability to highlight racism where none may actually exist. This likely exacerbates the issue of racism, doing nothing to combat it, but trivializes it to the scale of what could be a Facebook app. Tired of the same old liberal versus conservative grids? Instead, check out my bigot meter... telling you that when I see faces of black people, I think to press "Bad" instead of "Good." FlyBy actually wonders...
...seem paradoxical but Afghanistan and its neighbors can't afford a pullout or substantial reduction of combat missions by NATO allies. Western allies ought to refocus and realign their strategy by equipping Pakistan's armed forces meaningfully in their fight against rogue elements. Without concrete and sufficient support from Pakistan's forces, NATO and Western allies can't make headway in solving the Afghan puzzle. Imran Maqbool, Karachi, Pakistan...
...image of close combat in the verdant, achingly fertile French countryside seems fantastical now, like something out of The Lord of the Rings, so accustomed are we to watching dusty urban combat on CNN. Surgeons disinfected wounds with Calvados. Unmilked cows wandered bellowing through the ruins of ancient châteaus. Artillery crews learned to fire airbursts into the thick tops of chestnut trees to kill those underneath with splinters...
Anthony A. Braga, a Sociology lecturer, was one of 12 individuals honored last month by the U.S. Attorney General for his work to combat Boston gang crime...