Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Doris lives on $208 a month, "and it's hard to get in the job market. Without this program I would have lost the house. There was no way I could have paid those taxes." At city hall Doris read papers and documents to a blind city official, did some filing and phone answering and worked in the parking-ticket division. The work made her aware that she could handle a regular job if only someone would hire her. Says she: "Without a job, you get into a rut you wouldn't believe. I've been turned...
...society let these institutions persist as they are? The country's continual resistance to substantial prison reform is not easy to understand. Present building plans alone prove that stinginess does not really explain it. Real reform might save money, but it is as though the public remains somehow blind to the situation. Prison, after all, has become a symbol of society's stern feelings against crime. And most Americans probably carry in mind not an actual institution but a symbolic prison, a mythical place whose forbidding walls somehow protect society from the felons inside while training them...
Moore' Christ-like face lends an ironic dimension to J.B.'s suffering. Even blind and mutilated, the victim of some apocalyptic atomic blast, Moore's J.B. unleashes a 50-megaton cry to God for justice, for a reason. He cannot accept the logic of the grinning, trembling priest--David Van Taylor shines as this Father O'Malley through Stanley Kubrick's lens. The priest offers a straight-forward answer to J.B.'s questions and MacLeish's Question: "Your sin is simple. You were born...
Evaluating DMSO has proved exceptionally difficult in part because of its peculiar properties. Drugs are usually evaluated in what are known as double-blind, controlled experiments in which patients receive either the test substance or a placebo. To ensure objectivity, neither the patients nor the doctors know who got what until after the study is over. But the distinctive taste and odor of DMSO leave no doubt about which patients have received the real drug...
...great dilemma. While believing that the federal government should step in and prevent vast unemployment and its ripple effects throughout the economy, they hesitated to set the precedent of bailing out a major corporation from a crisis of its own making. The auto industry has not only been blind to possible consumer reactions to escalating gasoline prices, but it has worked actively to keep the American gas-guzzler on the road. As recently as two years ago, the carmakers lobbied legislators working on the National Energy Act to postpone the proposed deadline for improving the gas mileage of their fleets...