Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blood and urine samples from the Conrail crew indicated marijuana use by Engineer Richard Gates and Brakeman Edward Cromwell. Though the FRA has not said whether the amounts found are sufficient to prove Gates and Cromwell were intoxicated at the time, railroad workers are forbidden to work under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The National Transportation Safety Board now recommends that all trains operating between Washington and Boston be equipped with automatic braking devices that would stop a train even if engineers did not heed track signals...
...sacrifice anything rather than risk political upheavals. His tough stance on the protests was made clear in the first directive of 1987 issued by the Central Committee. It quoted Deng as saying, "When necessary, we must deal severely with those who defy orders. We can afford to shed some blood. Just try as much as possible not to kill anyone...
...teams are out to prove that last year was a mistake, and they want blood," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney Smith said...
...blood is exactly what they've been getting...
...paradoxes abound throughout the subject of surrogacy, a notion that speaks to the parental instinct and offends it in the same stroke. So that a father can enjoy a blood relation to his child, the surrogate mother is persuaded to treat the same bond as negotiable. For all the complexities, however, surrogacy is one of the simplest and most venerable of the new conception options. Even the Bible offers a parallel (in the Book of Genesis, naturally). When his wife proved unable to conceive, Abraham impregnated her handmaiden Hagar, who bore Ishmael. There were hard feelings in the aftermath...