Word: basic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crash of Kennedy's Piper Saratoga emerged on Saturday, some experienced pilots refused to criticize his flying, since no one yet knows whether something as simple as mechanical failure caused the accident. Others, however, nodded sadly to themselves at what seemed to be Kennedy's disregard for a few basic rules of aviation safety. A licensed pilot for only a year, he nonetheless took off without filing a flight plan--something the Federal Aviation Administration does not require but that many pilots do take a moment to do. He took off from Essex County Airport in Fairfield, N.J., at sunset...
This is the hardest kind of story for me to write. It's about a real advance in basic research on Alzheimer's. I know all too well that there are millions of people desperate for news of a treatment or a cure for this terrible disease. I also know that it can take five years or more for basic research--which is to say, experiments performed in test tubes or on laboratory animals--to be turned into safe and effective drugs. And that's only if there are no major setbacks or surprises. More often than not, these...
...strange to me, as I often struggle to keep up with the most commonplace details of my friends' lives. What cities do they live in now? Are they in college yet? And what about their career goals? I am always disturbed that I would often not know the most basic facts about their ever-changing lives. Almost a decade after we had spent our days battling the evil forces on campus, these friends and I would do all the things that best friends would on hot summer days, all the while attempting to see if we still knew one another...
Millions of less fortunate families bemoan the scarcity of such basic resources as recreation centers with a staff or basketball hoops with nets on them. In many of their neighborhoods, public money for after-school activities has declined, even in a time of plenty. Instead governments are directing resources toward law enforcement, education and other means of curbing such social ills as teen pregnancy, drug abuse and gang violence...
...more than 200 years after the French guillotine beheaded the king, France, like most of Europe, has socialized health care that purports to provide quality treatment for citizens of all means. And the government still controls much of the telecommunications, electricity and other basic industries...