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Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or D.A.R.E., is an American education program that tries to prevent use of controlled drugs, membership in gangs, and violent behavior. It was founded in Los Angeles in 1983 as a joint initiative of then- LAPD chief Daryl Gates and the Los Angeles Unified School District [ 1 ] [ 2 ] as a demand -side drug ...
Starting in 1983, the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program sent police officers into classrooms to teach fifth- and sixth-graders about the dangers of drugs and the need, as Nancy Reagan ...
David P. Weikart (August 26, 1931 – December 9, 2003) was an American psychologist and founder of the HighScope Curriculum, an early childhood education program.. Weikart was born on August 26, 1931, in Youngstown, Ohio.
Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" rally in Los Angeles, in 1987 "Just Say No" was an advertising campaign prevalent during the 1980s and early 1990s as a part of the U.S.-led war on drugs, aiming to discourage children from engaging in illegal recreational drug use by offering various ways of saying no.
Since the 1970s, Nugent has promoted anti-drug and anti-alcohol stances. He is a national spokesman for the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program. [80] In 2018, he admitted that he drinks "a little wine". [81] Nugent suffers from hearing loss. [82]
Adobe distributed its Adobe Reader (now Acrobat Reader) program free of charge from version 2.0 onwards, [6] and continued supporting the original PDF, which eventually became the de facto standard for fixed-format electronic documents. [7] In 2008 Adobe Systems' PDF Reference 1.7 became ISO 32000:1:2008.
David J. Bellis (May 1, 1944 – June 29, 2006) was an educator and politician. He served on the Signal Hill (California) City Council from April 1980 to September 1986, as mayor from April 1983 to April 1984, and chaired the Signal Hill Redevelopment Agency.
Dudley Allen Sargent was born in Belfast, Maine on September 29, 1849, the son of Benjamin Sargent, a ship carpenter and sparmaker, and Caroline Rogers Sargent. [1] His birthplace and childhood home was located on the west side of Penobscot Bay, and the bay and harbor provided much opportunity for activity.