Word: advent
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Ever since the advent of AIDS, two questions have been haunting Americans. How far and how fast is the incurable and almost invariably fatal disease likely to spread? And does it pose a threat to the general public -- that is, the vast majority of people who are neither homosexuals, bisexuals nor intravenous drug users...
...accomplish than policy initiation. He has the smallest domestic legislative agenda of any President in the post-war era, and whatever rhetoric he has committed to social issues like prayer in the schools and the prohibition of abortions, they have never been serious interests of the Administration. Second, the advent of a Democratic majority in the Senate has the ironic effect in some areas of replacing moderate Republican committee chairmen with more conservative Democrats, such as on the Finance and Appropriations Committees. Third, the next two years will be as much a period of trial for the Democratic majority...
...present population explosion started after the second World War, with the advent of more advanced medical treatments and more extensive public health programs, both of which lowered death rates, said William Alfonso, Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy in the School of Public Health...
Audiophiles have long complained about the poor quality of TV sound. Lush movie scores, rock concerts and opera performances hardly sound their best when squeezed through a 3-in. TV speaker. But all that is changing with the advent of stereo TV. An estimated 2.8 million stereo TV sets are expected to be sold in 1986, double the number last year. Meanwhile, the IN STEREO logo is ) cropping up on more and more network programs, just as the familiar IN LIVING COLOR advisory did back in the early 1960s...
...only is it now popular to protest in the Yard but it is finally safe to walk there. The "open university" and its police fan club have provided guaranteed protection at all hours of the day and night. Before the advent of the wood and plastic bag huts, the Yard was patrolled infrequently...