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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...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Locals Battle Evictions in Holiday Rally | 12/9/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Locals Battle Evictions in Holiday Rally | 12/9/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner and James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Area Schools Join to Fight Binge Drinking | 12/8/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elliot Shmukler's Tech Talk | 12/8/1998 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busted for Possession | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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