Word: cures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sexual harassment is merely the symptom and power imbalance, the disease, how are we to attempt a cure? Obviously, the University is not going to rush out and tenure x-number of women so as to balance numerically the tenured male faculty. Nor does it appear that a Women's Studies Program under whose auspices the different experience of women might be appreciated and our own voice heard is imminent at the University. Additionally, neither of the above is necessarily a panacea, curing all of Harvard's co-educational ills, of which sexual harassment is but one. Because no aggregate...
...something to the victims of discrimination, and to the heirs of the victims as well." Regardless of any decrees handed down by Supreme Court Justices or Cabinet officers, affirmative action has permeated personnel offices and public bureaucracies. It may be difficult to frame precise formulas to cure past discrimination without discriminating anew. Yet many employers have begun to feel their way to a commonsense approach, trying to hire and promote minorities and women wherever possible without discriminating against white males at the same time. Not only is this a salve to the corporate conscience, but it is proving a good...
Miners in the Andes have long used coca leaves to suppress hunger and induce a mild euphoria to help them ignore the cold. Others use them as an anesthetic or to ward off altitude sickness. For many, coca leaves are simply a cure-all. "Hot or cold, it's a different kind of drink, good for the stomach. It reduces weight. It restores energy," proclaims an advertisement for coca tea in Peru, where the marketing of coca-based products is quite legal...
...minefield of horrifying memories. One woman panics whenever she sees a dark Ford like the one that hauled her away to severe beatings and a gang rape. Some survivors have trouble entering bathrooms, because the tile, lighting and smell summon up images of their torture chambers. "How do you cure torture?" asks Genevieve Cowgill, 44, director of the Canadian Center for Investigation and Prevention of Torture. "It's not something you can simply talk victims...
...headline on the New York Post screamed U.S. APPROVES HERPES SUPER-DRUG. While that description was exaggerated, the approval of oral acyclovir capsules last week by the Food and Drug Administration marked a big step forward in the treatment of genital herpes. Though the drug will not cure the pesky venereal disease, which afflicts some 5 million to 20 million Americans, it can reduce both the severity and the frequency of recurring attacks...