Word: 1980s
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...reference to Christopher McFadden's opinion piece, "Quilts and the Moral Fabric," Oct. 17: Let's get to the point. AIDS-related sicknesses have taken the lives of more than 25 million people worldwide since its appearance in the early 1980s. Approximately 50 people--straight, gay, lesbian, transgender/sexual, poor, rich, white latina/o, black, Asian, Native American U.S. and foreign-born--will be injected or diagnosed with HIV today. AIDS is not to be belittled or mocked. It is a disease which touches many if not all of our lives; it takes many of our lives...
Having watched sales decline since the early 1980s, when the Coop was able to offer a nine-percent rebate to its members, Murphy said the store realized there were certain markets in which it could not compete...
Fortunately, the rate of spread of AIDS in the United States has declined tremendously since the mid-1980s, due probably to intensive education programs targeted at the highest-risk groups; sadly, not everyone learned from this, as McFadden's piece and the elevated rates among heterosexuals indicate. The rest of the world has not been so lucky; new subtypes of HIV-1 in are erupting in Zimbabwe, Botswana and Thailand, spreading primarily among heterosexuals according to Monty Montano at the School of Public Health...
Comedians turned away from recordings during the 1980s, opting for sitcoms and HBO concerts instead. But now they--and audiences--are rediscovering an art form with unique pleasures and possibilities. Many albums, of course, still do little more than preserve live stand-up performances. Ellen DeGeneres, for example, has just released her first album, Taste This, a sampler of surprisingly retro stand-up routines (imagine, a comedian who still jokes about airplane food!). A funnier addition to the genre comes from Robert Schimmel (Robert Schimmel Comes Clean), whose X-rated ruminations on bodily functions and anal sex are redeemed...
...Jose Mercury News has charged that the CIA possibly cooperated with the Nicaraguan contras to flood America's black ghettos with cocaine to get money to fund the 1980s war against the Sandinista government [DIVIDING LINE, Sept. 30]. These accusations are more than a problem affecting just black America and the CIA. Senator John Kerry's committee reported in the 1980s that the CIA, the FBI and the DEA knew of the contras' drug dealings, yet drug traffickers continued to be paid by the U.S. State Department, "in some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law-enforcement...