By applying a drug coating to the next-generation stents, device manufacturers have found a way to combat this problem.

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Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, is proposing new legislation to combat this problem.

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No lesser light than Larry Summers, the Harvard economist and former Treasury Secretary, argued in a paper twenty years ago that it is necessary for government to mandate minimum levels of fringe benefits as a way to combat this problem.

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Apple has given developers a tool to help combat this problem in the iOS platform.

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Our shopping cart holds several tools to help combat this unfortunate but often unavoidable problem.

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Well, there is a software company that has solutions to combat this after-the-fact data problem: TIBCO (Nasdaq:TIBX).

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It was first developed and launched by UNESCO in 2000 in collaboration with the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) to respond to the need to raise public awareness of this pressing environmental problem.

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This knowledge can be applied to improving the ability of antibiotics to target ribosomes of pathogens, helping to combat the problem of resistance.

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