Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their responses were blunt. As Atlanta Bureau Reporter Joyce Leviton discovered, "Almost every sexually active young person I spoke with either has the disease or knows someone who has it." Los Angeles Bureau Reporter Cheryl Crooks found that "in talking with herpes sufferers, I realized how little accurate medical information they had about their own disease." Part of the herpes problem today is that discussion of the phenomenon sometimes seems almost as off-putting as the disease itself. A TIME reporter in the South had to fight the reluctance of conservative Western Union operators in Mississippi to transmit her reports...
...border. Once again the fighting involved tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides, and in scope and intensity resembled the desert battles of World War II. The Iraqi forces of President Saddam Hussein fought tenaciously to hold their positions, and at week's end had managed to blunt the Iranian attack...
Fresh from her victorious Falkland Islands tussle, the "Iron Lady" has used newly acquired stature to voice the displeasure of the Allies over the way Reagan has dealt with Europe. What upsets the Europeans most is the President's blunt anti-Soviet policies, and in particular, the recent imposition of sanctions on the trans-Siberian pipeline. What European heads-of-state have forcefully argued is this: Reagan's top priority in Europe may be saber-rattling, but the Allies' chief concern is running their respective governments and repairing battered economies. They add that if Reagan wants a free hand...
Poverty is a longstanding social problem that hits American women with particular force. "Female heads of households are the disproportionate group of people in poverty," says Columbia University Economist Eli Ginzberg. "The feminization of poverty" is Sociologist Diana Pearce's blunt phrase for it. A Census Bureau report covering 1980 just goes by the numbers: "About one-half of all families below the poverty level in 1980 were maintained by women with no husband present. The poverty rate for such families was 32.7%, compared with 6.2% for married-couple families, and 11% for families with a male householder, no wife...
Habib's task was to reconcile Israel's blunt demand that the Palestinians lay down their arms and flee the country with the P.L.O.'s plea for an "honorable surrender." On Monday the P.L.O. presented Habib with a set of requests. The most important was the retention of a "symbolic" military presence in Lebanon in the form of two armed brigades that would be commanded by the Lebanese army. The P.L.O. has similar arrangements in Jordan and Syria. In addition, the organization asked that it be allowed to maintain its own armed police force in the Palestinian...