Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Community police may also use unconventional means to combat more serious crimes. When drug dealers in Houston turned a bank of pay phones outside a convenience store into their personal business office, a patrolman got the phones removed. In the same city, a deserted apartment complex where dealers flourished was finally boarded up after a community cop tracked down and harangued the property's bankruptcy trustee...
...because they are less promising scientifically, but because they carry a slightly greater risk of infection and, in turn, a greater potential for liability suits. In fact, some scientists contend that the threat of such suits has kept many major drug companies out of vaccine research altogether. To combat this chilling effect, the NAS report urges Congress to provide drug companies with liability protection...
...come, Saddam has surely not finished fighting them. If his forces are able to consolidate their gains in the south, they will soon turn their guns on the rebels in the north. After a permanent truce is reached with the allies, Saddam will presumably be able to fly his combat planes again and thus bomb the Kurds from...
...South Koreans to refrain from shouldering their way through crowds, spitting in public and even eating dogs. But after the nation finished playing host to the summer Olympics, the rigorous campaign slacked off, and government officials have noticed that many citizens went back to their old antisocial ways. To combat the problem, a new month-long crackdown has been launched against expectorating, smoking in restricted areas, urinating in public and "behaving obnoxiously while intoxicated." On the first day of the program, police officials announced that exactly 57,294 people had been reprimanded nationwide, primarily for spitting and littering...
...arms from the Soviet Union, though it must be having some doubts about the quality of the merchandise these days. China announced two weeks ago that it would provide the U.S.S.R. with food, tea, cigarettes and other consumer goods worth $730 million. In return it wants to buy combat aircraft, missiles and tanks...