Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, proposed that the super-powers reach an agreement apart from other arms negotiations on eliminating medium-range missiles from Europe in five years...
...annual cost of all this testing, including the ELISA, confirmation tests and counseling, would probably be counted in the billions. But the personal and emotional costs of testing are immeasurable. "The test tends to rip people's lives apart," says Dooley Worth, who leads a support group of high- risk women, many of them former intravenous drug users, in Manhattan. "I've even seen couples who are both negative break up because of questions raised from just getting the test." For those who test positive, the psychological effect is devastating. And critics of mass testing question the ethics of informing...
...suicide. The gardener, whose comings and goings helped the writer regulate his solitary days, is abruptly fired. The man who manages the manor dies suddenly of a stroke. Elms in the valley die out; beech trees near Naipaul's cottage must be cut down; two huge aspens are torn apart by heavy wind...
Crystal sets up the obligatory Wellesley joke that is the biggest hit of the evening. Apart from that crack, a reference to Tommy's Lunch and a vague swipe at New Haven, the show lacked its characteristic Crimson tint. Even the presence of the Dean of Students didn't elicit the traditional Archie crack from the cast...
...reaching out to young people in television commercials that show freshly minted college graduates signing on to help feed the world. Across the U.S., colleges are out hustling for freshmen in innovative ways: the University of Rochester offers a tuition-free fifth year that allows students to explore fields apart from their majors...