Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most of the Hollywood community is publicly rooting for the newcomer (largely because it offers another market for programming), but privately, in the words of one producer, "skepticism is running very high. The money in this town is on failure." No one, however, is ready to dismiss Murdoch's bold venture. "It's well financed, it's well conceived, and it's got a guy with deep pockets," says Edward Atorino, media analyst at Smith Barney. Murdoch expects to spend $150 million over the next two years and does not anticipate making money for at least four years. "Sure...
...hour off, and most of Managua was still asleep when the bombs exploded. "The earth moved," recalled Sergio Cano, a laborer. "We thought the gringos had started bombing." The blast in the Nicaraguan capital signaled neither an earthquake nor an armed invasion from the north but an unusually bold contra attack on an electrical tower. While residents slumbered in the dusty neighborhood of Domitila Lugo, rebels had scaled the high-voltage pylon and placed explosives on the metal crossbars. The explosion shattered windows and broke dishes in nearby homes, but no one was hurt. Indeed, electrical service was not even...
...humans. Last week, after months of rumors within the scientific community, it was confirmed that this dramatic leap has been taken in vaccine research. In a letter in the British journal Nature, Dr. Daniel Zagury, an AIDS investigator at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, described a bold experiment: he had inoculated himself in November with a potential AIDS vaccine...
...sentimental dreamers in the party still look at the nomination of Geraldine Ferraro as a bold and worthwhile gamble. The cynical realists don't want to take risks any more. They just want...
Even though it was armed with earlier papal speeches on biological ethics, Rome decided to prepare a formal document in response to requests from many bishops as the new techniques were becoming more widespread. In fact, some worried Catholics think the Vatican has been too cautious, rather than too bold, by waiting so long to speak out. The Pontifical Council for the Family has received letters from scores of couples, most of them American, asking for guidance or expressing concern about the technologies. The doctrinal congregation spent 20 months writing the text, consulting some 60 moral theologians and 22 scientists...