Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What happens now to Olliemania? Senate Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye asked the question obliquely in his farewell address to North at the conclusion of day six. With perhaps a touch of irony -- it is hard to tell with the dour Senator -- he wished the newly minted hero and his lady well, as they set off into the sunset...
...victims have been homosexual males. Thus there is ambivalence among artists when the media disclose deaths caused by AIDS. Is the press spreading information or incrimination? Further, artists do not die only of AIDS, and the disease does not kill only artists. Says Hoffman: "I was going through my address book the other day to see who was gone. Among the 16, there was a plumber, a computer genius, a cop. AIDS attacks a cross section of humanity. But artists get the notoriety, and that gives people a false sense of security. I think that's dangerous...
...last there was something tangible that the American mind knew how to address: an apparent legal transgression, a scandal involving the misuse of money. The diversion became a diversion of its own, distracting attention from the thornier basic issues involved. The messy, demanding job of weighing a policy -- several policies, really -- and passing judgment gave way to the tidier task of searching for a smoking gun. There was even a ready-made framework from an earlier, dissimilar, scandal: What did the President know...
...some of whom have made progress by participating in the economy of their regions. The Passamaquoddy own several businesses in northern Maine, including the largest cement plant in New England. The Cherokee in North Carolina have bought a factory for making mirrors. This strategy enables the American Indians to address their unemployment problem and become less dependent on federal subsidies...
Another solution is to change your address. Traffic jams have discouraged even the President and Nancy Reagan from returning to their old neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, Calif.: "We really can't go out that far because traffic in Los Angeles is now so bad," said the First Lady to U.P.I. "You'd be on the road all the time." If motorcades can't beat the crawl, then ordinary mortals had best sit back, turn up the stereo and wait patiently for the age of Hovercraft and rocket belts...