Word: informers
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...drink more heavily by changing their expectations surrounding drinking. In other words, students may feel pressured to drink because they believe that everyone else is doing it. The basic idea behind a social norms marketing campaign is to turn this dynamic around by using campus-based media to inform students about the more realistic levels of alcohol consumption among their peers. It is hypothesized that having accurate information about college alcohol use leads to changes in perceptions of drinking norms on campus and, in turn, may lead to fewer students engaging in high-risk drinking...
...National Bank headquarters on Union Street. Wearing heavy camouflage uniforms, black vests and helmets, they carried Steyr-AUG rifles equipped with flashlights that allowed them to work in the dark. In stifling heat, the teams checked each room for looters and squatters, using a series of rhythmic chants to inform other team members of what they had found, as well as to indicate when backup was required. No man entered a room alone. "We expect [the looters] are gone by now," says special agent Marcus Custer of the San Diego division, "but we're trying to be cautious...
Adam M. Smith, the Google Print Project Manager, announced the decision to suspend the scanning of copyrighted books in early August on Google’s corporate blog. He wrote that the scanning would stop to allow publishers time to inform Google of books they did not want included in the project...
...Homes were intact, although many pine trees were felled. But most seemed to have hit lawns and carports rather than causing real structural damage to homes. Bush joked with Alabama Power workers who were helping to restore power to the comfortable neighborhood, which led Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour to inform the crew that he had "married an Alabama girl." The whole tone still seemed out of step with the utter destruction along the Mississippi coast and the carnage in New Orleans. Until Bush plunges headfirst into New Orleans worst-hit neighborhoods he's going to have a hard time correcting...
...weeks Gestation period during which a human fetus cannot feel pain, according to a new, controversial study 3 Number of U.S. states that have recently passed laws requiring doctors to inform women seeking abortions after the 20th week of their pregnancies that their fetuses can feel pain