Word: levied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here because a woman is battered every eighteen seconds," Professor Gail Dines-Levi of Wheelock University said, in a speech officially opening Take Back the Night, a week of events designed to protest the problem of violence directed at women...
Titled "Annihilation of Women Though Media and Pornography," Dines-Levi's lecture addressed the ways in which pornography desensitizes both men and women to sexist statements. Although she cited a wide array of studies to establish a connection between pornography, Dines-Levi said that the matter essentially came down to a question of common sense...
...American research. Explains Philip Lee, University of California at San Francisco professor of social medicine: "The system is a political process." By using Washington connections, media savvy and even civil disobedience, the AIDS movement may have become the most effective disease lobby in the history of medicine. Says Jeff Levi, former executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: "Long after AIDS is gone, we will have changed how research is done in this country...