Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before blood screening became mandatory, most older people got HIV from transfusions. But since such transmissions have been all but eliminated, medical workers are being forced to confront the fact that seniors are getting infected primarily during sex. Promiscuity is common in senior centers, where the ratio of women to men averages 7 to 1. Since fear of pregnancy is no longer a concern, many seniors don't use condoms. And Viagra has added more fuel to an already volatile mix. Physically fit single men, dubbed "condominium Casanovas," often flit from one woman to the next, sometimes passing along AIDS...
...shooting of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African street merchant--have stopped and frisked thousands of blacks and Hispanics for no reason except their color. It is why many law-abiding members of minority groups are convinced they have more to fear from cops like Volpe than they do from common criminals. Until the white majority makes it clear that it will not tolerate such abuses, they are bound...
...P.L.A. out of business. For more than a decade, P.L.A. generals have been fighting to make money, not war. At one point, the military controlled nearly 20,000 companies employing more than 16 million people. Top P.L.A. brass, often ditching combat boots for tasseled loafers, were common sights at properties that included hotels, telecommunications services, pharmaceutical concerns and even airlines. Less public was the fact that some of the nation's vital naval and air bases had become smuggling hubs for everything from cigarettes to cement. The handsome profits--more than $10 billion a year--were used to improve...
...common as the loss of taste or olfactory sensitivity is, people are often unaware that they are suffering from it. "If your vision goes, you say, 'My vision isn't what it used to be. I have glaucoma.' If your hearing is poor, you say, 'Please speak louder. My hearing isn't good.' But if your taste and smell decline, you blame the food," says Susan Schiffman, a researcher at Duke University Medical Center. Many people also believe, erroneously, that flavor is perceived through taste alone; in fact, smell supplies all the nuances of flavor, enabling us to distinguish...
...think General de Gaulle whined about governing a nation with 265 types of cheese... Indonesians voted Monday in their first democratic elections in five decades, but with 127 million voters spread across 14,000 islands -? many of whom have nothing more in common than the fact that they were once colonized by the Dutch -? a coherent result will be difficult ? and certainly slow in coming. Although half of the vote should have been counted by Tuesday night, only a meager 1 percent of the total was revealed, raising fears among the opposition of government vote rigging. But that...