Word: complain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should pay the spiraling health costs for victims of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Insurance regulators and special-interest lobbyists argue with increasing fervor that the companies that cover some 140 million Americans must shoulder a greater part of the growing AIDS load. For their part, insurance executives complain that one of their industry's fundamental principles, the right to evaluate risk, is under attack. The outcome of the struggle is also of vital interest to individual policyholders, who might see premiums rise as the deadly virus spreads through society...
...performance of Asian Americans also triggers resentment and tension. "Anti-Asian activity in the form of violence, vandalism, harassment and intimidation continues to occur across the nation," the U.S. Civil Rights Commission declared last year. The situation can be particularly rough in inner-city schools. Young immigrant Asians complain that they are called "Chink" or "Chop Suey" and are constantly threatened. At New York City's Washington Irving High School, for example, there were reports last year of some 40 incidents of harassment and violence against Asian-American students...
...jump of Bob Beamon has stayed beyond him. "To me, winning and losing was never a big deal," he says now. "I enjoy competing; I enjoy training. I've had a lot of good memories in sport. If nothing more was to happen, I don't think I could complain...
...fragile Arias agreement could easily come unglued. But having proposed similar steps, the Administration was in no position to complain about what was decided in Guatemala. Indeed, in a statement released last Saturday, the President said he welcomed the rival proposal. If his plan had been intended partly as a ploy to get more contra funding, it had backfired. As long as the Central American peace process continues, however hesitantly, Congress will almost certainly be unwilling to renew the military funding that will soon run out for Reagan's favorite freedom fighters. And the willingness of Honduras to go along...
...just beginning. This October NIDA will embark on a three-year pilot program in 15 cities aimed at reaching IV drug users, their sex partners and prostitutes. They will be urged to enter methadone-treatment programs, use condoms and get AIDS-virus testing and counseling. Some black leaders complain, however, that too much of the federal AIDS-education programs and funds is aimed at white, middle-class students, rather than at the young, inner-city IV addicts and their sexual partners, who are much more at risk. For the moment the Reagan Administration resists the notion that it should appropriate...