Word: bethesda
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...equipment, liquor or tobacco products, or that have poor environmental or equal-opportunity records. Pax World invests in companies that do business in South Africa only if they are providers of food or medical supplies. Other similar social-investment firms include New Alternatives in Great Neck, N.Y., and the Bethesda, Md.-based Calvert Group, which offers both stock-and-bond and money-market funds. New York City's Dreyfus, one of the largest and most diversified of the general mutual-fund companies, operates a social-investment fund called Third Century, in addition to other standard portfolios...
...cagers pulled in five recruits to bolster an already young team: Scott Gilly of Washington, D.C.: 6-ft., 3-in.; Brian Mackey (son of Cleveland State basketball Coach Kevin Mackey) of Cleveland, Ohio.: 6-ft., 4-in.; Brian Perlich of Bethesda, Maryland.: 6-ft., 5-in.; Sean Duffy of New York, N.Y.: 6-ft, 7-in.; and Malcolm Hollensterner of New York...
...cagers pulled in five recruits to bolster an already young team: Scott Gilly of Washington, D.C.: 6-ft., 3-in.; Brian Mackey (son of Cleveland State basketball Coach Kevin Mackey) of Cleveland, Ohio.: 6-ft., 4-in.; Brian Perlich of Bethesda, Maryland.: 6-ft., 5-in.; Sean Duffy of New York, N.Y.: 6-ft, 7-in.; and Malcolm Hollensterner of New York...
AIDS was initially called a gay disease because most U.S. victims are homosexual men. But, says Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., "AIDS was never a homosexual virus. It's just that the homosexual group was the first to be infected in the U.S., and they spread it among themselves." In some African countries, where homosexuality is uncommon, the virus has become so prevalent that doctors cannot single out risk groups, apart from prostitutes. In Kenya, 54% of the prostitutes from Nairobi slums carry AIDS virus antibodies...
...news was an eerie echo of the 1979-81 Iranian hostage crisis. The State , Department confirmed last week that Joe Pattis, 49, an American in Iran, had been arrested there on espionage charges. Pattis, an employee of Cosmos Engineers of Bethesda, Md., was reportedly working at Iran's state-run telecommunications center at Assadabad shortly before Iraqi jets bombed the facility; Iranian suspicion that Pattis was connected with the bombing apparently led to his arrest...