Word: combating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uses a variety of means to combat housing injustice, including outreach and education, the purpose of last Saturday's rally...
...also works to set up tenant organizations, the most effective way to combat injustice, and provides legal aid and advice, including financial support for those who qualify...
...plan, the culmination of a year-long collaborative effort, was created to combat "problem drinking" on college campuses in the wake of MIT first-year Scott Krueger's death last fall and the release of a report on the pervasiveness of college binge-drinking last year...
...combat this problem, e-commerce vendors employ a technology known as SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer. SSL allows your personal information to be encrypted via the application of a sophisticated mathematical formula. The encryption process turns your information from a form that is easily understood by any human to a mass of seemingly random gibberish. The intended receiver of the information can then transform the gibberish back into its original form via a decryption process that uses a different set of mathematical formulas...
When 46 states signed the tobacco deal two weeks ago, in which they agreed to drop their smoking-related Medicaid lawsuits in return for $206 billion from the cigarette companies, kids like Randall were a chief consideration. A large chunk of the money will be used to combat teen smoking, which, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, jumped 73% from 1988 to 1996. So a lot of attention may soon be focused on Florida, home of the most aggressive, get-tough campaign against teen smoking...