Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politically connected halls are closer to the River, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Wilson, although he is teaching an Afro-Am course in the spring, is actually Wiener professor of public policy at the Kennedy School...
...profit-minded, selfless and selfish, inspired and pragmatic, sublime and boorish. With its emphasis on technology, the juggernaut of medical science has often strained and frayed the traditional personal bond between doctor and patient. It has presented medicine with a tangle of ethical dilemmas, bringing moral implications ever closer to daily life--and death. And, if that were not enough, it confronts society and government with the urgent problem of just...
...prospect of salvation for people with AIDS seems closer than ever before. Since last November, almost 15 years after the first reported AIDS cases, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved five new drugs that when taken in various combinations with the old standby, azt, have given new life to thousands of desperately ill people. This past summer, researchers isolated a gene that appears to protect some people from HIV infection--even after repeated exposure--and could lead to new genetic therapies against AIDS. Experiments being conducted this fall may tell doctors whether they can hit the virus hard...
...first un-Dole to fly was Steve Forbes, the "fresh face" millionaire publisher and supply-side devotee whose call for a "simple, flat tax" won wide support in the polls. But Dole's alliance with the Christian Coalition--a marriage of convenience, since the group was ideologically closer to Pat Buchanan but wanted most of all to win--paid off in Iowa on Feb. 12, as coalition members followed their leaders and voted for Dole. Forbes was mostly cooked. But then in New Hampshire eight days later, Buchanan upset the party favorite. That loss reflected Dole's inherent weakness despite...
...watch a movie set in recent decades is to run a reality check on the cast and crew. Are they wearing the accurately awful frocks? Any anachronistic dialogue? In this game of dueling memories we may be no closer to the truth than the filmmakers, but hey, we were there. Any fiction movie becomes, in our eyes, a failed documentary...