Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fresno boldly disdains a laugh track, and if it were not for the network's tongue-in-cheek promos, a casual viewer might miss the joke. The cast plays it expertly deadpan, with only an occasional wink at the audience. Satiric jabs at specific soaps are few and relatively tame. The California wines of Falcon Crest have puckered into raisins. The Southern accents (in California?) have migrated from Dallas. Garr's drop-dead wardrobe and a female catfight are straight out of Dynasty. And when Tiffany searches for her father at a costume party, she assembles...
...avoid lethal disease, is forbidden. In the view of the NAS panel and Surgeon General Koop, however, action must no longer be delayed. AIDS researchers have faced an exquisite dilemma: they initially felt obliged to calm public hysteria stirred by the false idea that AIDS can be spread by casual contact, but in the process some may have played down the threat of the disease. No more. In their view, it is time for a call to battle...
Five years into the AIDS epidemic, the deadly virus has already achieved a worldwide reach, and is threatening to break out in the general population. Two weeks ago, the U.S. Surgeon General warned that the threat of AIDS has made casual sex hazardous to anyone's health. The National Academy of Sciences echoed that admonition last week, predicting that heterosexual transmissions of the disease will increase sevenfold by 1991. Says Margaret A. Fischl, director of the AIDS program at the University of Miami: "Anyone who is sexually active, visits prostitutes or has casual sex needs to be concerned. The only...
...other parts of the country, unwarranted fears of catching AIDS through casual contact manifested themselves in the workplace and on the ballot. After pinning an antihomosexual slogan to the wall of their garage, 29 New England Telephone Co. technicians staged a one-day walkout in Needham, Mass., to protest the return to work of a colleague who has the disease. The AIDS victim had stayed away from his job for a year, awaiting settlement of his $1.5 million lawsuit against the utility. He had charged the company with revealing his condition to his co-workers, who had then begun...
Another system could require students' advisors--those who currently sign study cards--to meet with advisees for one half-hour every four weeks to discuss the students' academic progress. These casual meetings would be mandatory, forcing students to report their academic activities to some authority figure...