Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City, where AIDS is a far more serious problem, last week decided to try a similar approach. Condoms will be made available to some 90 homosexual inmates who are housed in a special wing of Rikers Island jail. If the three-month trial is successful, the program may be expanded to the rest of the city's 14,600 prisoners. About half of them have taken drugs by injection and may have used contaminated needles...
...sitting with the others in the Jersey Devil office trailer parked just opposite his Airstream. "But most architects these days sit in their offices, design their places down to the last details and then hand the plans over to be built by someone else. Now I ask you, which approach do you think would make for better results? Do you sit in your office and look up stock answers in your books? Or do you move to the guy's property, immerse yourself in that piece of land, take your time, and do a one-off piece...
Foreign Ministers of the NATO countries meeting with Shultz in Brussels on Thursday seemed less than reassured. Leaving the session, Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti admitted "there is fear of global denuclearization without adequate countermeasures," although his government made it plain that it supported the new approach. A French TV news analyst summed up a strong current of opinion in his country: "Zero option, yes. Double zero and triple zero, no." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, during her visit to Moscow three weeks ago, told Gorbachev that a "world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous...
...prospect of mechanically consulting their punishment tables like an abacus leaves most judges dismayed. "I know of nobody who's keen to enforce this approach," says U.S. District Court Judge Laughlin Waters of Los Angeles. "Most judges don't want sentencing guidelines, period," admits Chairman William Wilkins of South Carolina, a federal appeals judge. But, he adds, "we all recognize we need a system where there is certainty and fairness. Without guidelines that is impossible." The absence of outright enthusiasm from any quarter for the commission's approach may be inevitable. As Stanford Criminal Law Professor John Kaplan says...
...national elections approach, the Botha government threatens to strike at neighboring countries and bans demonstrations calling for the release of political prisoners. But a public outcry forces Pretoria to beat a strategic retreat. -- Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone' s party suffers its worst + setback in 30 years. -- A long- suppressed Soviet novel recalls the horrors of the Stalin...