Word: annes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mutation of Type A influenza strains predominant in the U.S. in the 1950s) only since June, when the first cases were confirmed in Taiwan. Pharmaceutical companies, which had already manufactured a single-shot flu vaccine that is effective against three known and anticipated strains -- A/Chile, A/Mississippi and B/ Ann Arbor -- were forced to rush a separate A/Taiwan vaccine into production. Though no one knows how serious this season's attack will be, influenza generally kills 20,000 to 40,000 Americans in a single winter, more victims than AIDS has claimed since it first appeared...
...House of Commons was packed and restive as Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe rose to make a statement. Just four hours before, a London criminal court jury had convicted Jordanian Terrorist Nezar Hindawi, 32, of plotting to blow up an El Al jet by using his Irish girlfriend, Ann Murphy, as a human time bomb. Testimony at the trial had strongly implicated Syrian officials, and Howe was expected to issue a stinging denunciation of the Damascus government...
...study by Herbert Leonard of Harvard found that one third of people living in rent controlled housing in Cambridge were upper-income and professional people. While studying at MIT, Ann Jaroscewicz found that this proportion had increased to 55 percent...
That much oatmeal between glossy red-white-and-blue covers made the party's surviving left wing gag. Observed Ann Lewis, director of the Americans for Democratic Action: "It was not the stuff that energizes voters." Pointing out that Democratic primary voters this year have recoiled from centrist candidates, she added, "Every primary in which there was a clear choice between a real Democrat and an imitation, they chose the genuine article." If "real Democrat" is defined as liberal, the returns in several key contests bear her out. In Georgia, for example, Hamilton Jordan ran on a platform of moving...
...staying mobile, dealers can remain one step ahead of the police or rivals who might be hunting for them. These days, with drugs moving by land, sea and air, the paging device is likely to turn up anywhere. "It's not uncommon for pagers to wash up onshore," concedes Ann Director of the Telocator Network of America, the Washington trade association that represents radio common carriers. Nor is it that unusual for beepers to be found in schools among both suspect students and those who are merely trying to be hip. Says George Vaughn, chairman of the Detroit school board...