Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...virus, their symptoms were not as severe as those of full-blown AIDS. Each patient took a capsule every four hours. For slightly more than half the group, those capsules contained AZT. For the control group, the capsules contained a placebo, a harmless, inactive substance. The tests were "double blind" to ensure that results would be interpreted objectively; neither the doctors administering the tests nor the AIDS victims knew who was getting the real drug. That information was known only to a few Burroughs Wellcome officials, who monitored the results flowing in from the participating centers...
...Hunts will appeal Sanders' ruling, and they immediately demanded that the judge be disqualified from hearing their case. Their court petition argued that "one cannot be blind to the background of long-standing philosophical and political differences between the honorable Barefoot Sanders and . . . members of the Hunt family." But Sanders refused to remove himself from the case...
...looks like Beirut without the palm trees. The streets are grizzled; the council flats could have been designed by the architect for Attica; the Charleston Club, a night spot where most of the film's action unspools, is a little triumph of dejected bad taste. Young predators attack a blind pensioner or prowl parking lots in search of black mischief. And the police are apt to break into the wrong home and leave the place a shambles. Seems it happens all the time. "We'll get a carpenter straight out, sir," says one apologetic bobby. "We have them on standby...
...have felt that Harvard would like to be color blind so that all [its students] would come out white and crimson. But there is something very special about being Black and crimson," Snowden said...
...been our common bond, our unifying force, is being eroded," said Stanley Diamond, chairman of the California English Campaign. Governor Richard Lamm of Colorado, an outspoken leader on the issue, echoed the idea of English as this country's social glue before a congressional committee. "We should be color-blind but not linguistically deaf," he said. "We should be a rainbow but not a cacophony. We should welcome different people but not adopt different languages...