Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Public Health Service, a government agency, recommended earlier this week that people in high risk groups undergo periodic blood tests to screen for the AIDS virus...
...antidrug efforts focuses on the growing use of urinalysis (see box). Opponents charge that urine tests are a particularly invasive and humiliating method of determining whether a worker has used drugs. Says Bus Driver Randy Kemp, whose employer, Seattle Metro, requires employees who appear to be impaired to submit blood and urine samples: "You've got to have a search warrant to search my house. Well, my body is a lot more sacred than my home...
Cocaine money has compromised many government officials in the Caribbean, where smugglers seek islands as rest-and-refueling stops for trips to the U.S. In the words of one disheartened religious leader in Barbados, politicians "see the glint of gold and not the blood dripping from this accursed money." In the Bahamas, an inquiry by a three-member panel implicated two Cabinet members in drug smuggling and nearly toppled the administration of Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling. Commented the Miami Herald in an editorial: "The panel portrays a country haunted by cocaine abuse, a police force riddled with corruption, lawyers...
...worked out that much had half the risk of death of those who did little or no exercise. Moreover, the study showed that a lifetime habit of engaging in energetic activity three to four times a week could reduce the negative health effects of cigarette smoking or high blood pressure. It even partly offset an inherited tendency toward early death...
...discrimination arises from the Roman Catholic assertion that ordination gives the church's priests the power to invoke in the Eucharist a real, mysterious re-enactment of the body-and-blood "sacrifice" of Jesus Christ. Beginning in 1552, argued the papal bull, the ordination ritual in Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer erased all mention of the priestly commission to offer sacrifice. Without such a commission, Leo ruled, in Roman Catholic terms the Anglican ordinations were defective both in the form (words) of the ritual and in the intention of the original celebrants of the rite...