Word: combatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...survey analysis says the Women's Center could help combat the message conveyed by the nine all-male final clubs and provide a space for women and their concerns...
With three days of workshops, panel discussions and speeches--including one tonight at the Kennedy School of Government--the week's planners are hoping to concentrate more on how students can actively combat racism, and not just recognize where it exists...
...least half a dozen firms are selling antinoise systems in the U.S. and Europe. A pair of British firms, Racal Acoustics and Plessey, sell antinoise headphones that combat cockpit noise in military vehicles, such as the Sea King helicopter and the Warrior attack vehicle. Digisonix, a division of Nelson Industries in Stoughton, Wis., markets units that can be bolted to air ducts to mute the blast of industrial fans and heating and air-conditioning systems. Noise Cancellation Technologies of New York City just announced a joint venture with Tenneco to make electronic mufflers for automobiles and light trucks that...
...goal of Asian-American Cultural Week '89-'90 is "to combat ignorance and appreciate our different heritage," said Arlene M. Mayeda '91, co-president of the Asian-American Association (AAA) and a member of the planning committee...
Calm had returned by the time Pope John Paul II appeared. In the first major papal statement on AIDS, the Pontiff called on governments "to develop and carry out a worldwide plan to combat AIDS and drug addiction." He urged patients not to despair and condemned "every form of discrimination" against them. But he warned against "morally illicit" methods of preventing AIDS -- a clear allusion to condoms -- and spoke of "abuse of sexuality," referring to homosexuality, as a cause of the spreading of AIDS. He said the crisis results from "immunodeficiency" in values...