Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These proposals, and a similar reform effort expected to come before the California legislature next year, have doctors and hospital administrators around the country up in arms. Changing the hours and responsibilities of residents would not only alter the way doctors are trained, it would also wreak havoc with the staffing of teaching hospitals, which depend on the cheap labor of residents, who typically earn about $24,000 a year...
...court to their liking, Reagan has gone out of his way to portray Bork as a moderate in the Powell mold. The White House has distributed to key Senators a briefing book that outlines many of Bork's rulings and proclaims that his appointment to the court "will not alter the balance...
While the largest percentage of minority AIDS victims have been homosexuals or bisexuals (40% for blacks, 49% for Hispanics), the growing infection rate among IV drug abusers threatens to alter those proportions. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) estimates that 70% of the nation's 1.28 million IV addicts are black or Hispanic, and according to the CDC, about a third of AIDS cases among those minorities have been linked to drug abuse, in contrast to just 5% of cases among whites. The virus spreads easily in urban shooting galleries, where a contaminated needle may be passed among...
...Journal. But no publication had ever fingered him as the source for a specific story until Newsweek decided that his accusations against Congress warranted such a disclosure. "When a guy lies on national television, at that point you have to reassess the rules," said Newsweek's media writer Jonathan Alter. "Given these unusual circumstances, we felt an obligation to point out to our readers that North himself was a frequent source of Administration leaks," said Editor in Chief Richard Smith, who decided to run the story over objections from the magazine's Washington bureau...
...lessening of Soviet internal repression could alter the U.S. side of the equation. At the heart of American animosity toward the Soviet Union is a revulsion against its internal system, a belief that there is something cruel and unnatural about the relationship between the individual and the state under the precepts of Marx and Lenin. "Gorbachev seems to be rethinking precisely those things that we don't like about the Soviet Union," says Michael Mandelbaum, a Soviet expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. "If glasnost thrives, the place could change in ways that will make it easier...