Word: combatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when 1986 statistics showed a slight jump in drunk driving fatalities after some years of decline, it became clear that another media campaign was needed, DeJong says. The Center for Health Communication, which specializes in using the media to combat personal health problems, decided to take up the issue...
Penny Duckham, a spokesperson for The Commonwealth Fund, which gave $375,000 for research and assistance to a Massachusetts program that will use local TV and radio to combat drinking and driving, says, "We are delighted with success they've been having. There are pretty horrific figures about people killed by drunk driving. To the degree we can contribute, we are going...
...combat what they fear will be a rash of Yuletide thefts, Penn State officials have established a rigorous schedule of fines. "The amount of the fine will be based on the type of tree that is stolen," McNichol said. Fines for stealing are $3 per foot for timber trees, $10 for tree farm and nursery trees, and $36 for the prime landscape and "research" trees...
...relationship between Harvard and the city is so complex, he says, that it took most of his first term for him to grasp it. Now, he says, he has the experience necessary to combat the University...
...Harvard and Stanford respectively--founded ODN on the two campuses in 1983, and there are currently 63 chapters on college campuses nationwide. Bike-Aid, which started in 1986 and absorbed Harvard Cyclists Fighting Hunger in 1987, is one of four major ODN programs which raise awareness about and help combat the problem of global poverty and injustice...