Word: chillness
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Despite such changes in attitude, AIDS high-risk groups, particularly homosexuals, are feeling an increasing employment chill. Physician Leon Warshaw, executive director of the New York Business Group on Health, decries the trend. Says he: "Fear of AIDS is a front for an unreasoning homophobia. People who have the mannerisms or appearance or careers that suggest they might be gay -- whether they are or not -- become a source of concern for employers...
...deputy, Peter Robinson, 38, the agitation for change has grown increasingly disturbing. Members of the paramilitary Ulster Defense Association and the banned Ulster Volunteer Force are widely believed to be behind many of the more than 400 recent attacks, mostly on police, that have also sent a chill through Catholic hearts...
These matching programs send a Big Brotherly chill down more than a few spines. To keep the Government out of the electronic dossier and blacklist business, the Privacy Act of 1974 prohibited federal agencies from exchanging data about private citizens without their consent. Yet the Administration, despite the protests of the A.C.L.U. and other watchdog groups, is planning to expand further its computer matching efforts to include families applying for college loans, veterans using VA hospitals and rural families asking the Farmers Home Administration for low-interest housing loans...
...NASA objections, they decided to take a "management" vote in which the engineers seated beside them had no voice. Even though Thiokol had taken the seal problem seriously enough to spend more than $2 million seeking a remedy, its top officers involved in shuttle work now ignored the Florida chill and approved the launch. The NASA managers had won the argument. Six astronauts and Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe lost everything...
...signs leading from the airport into Vancouver boast IT'S OUR YEAR! C'EST NOTRE ANNEE! And so it is, in English, French and just about every other language of the globe. Surrounded on one side by snowcapped mountains, on the other by chill Pacific waters, the San Francisco of Canada, as it is often called, now has an additional adornment, a world's fair. Open since the beginning of the month, Expo 86 is already a success by the most firmly pedestrian standard: crowds are standing in line to love...