Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sexually indiscriminate" period of her life during which she had about 15 sexual partners. "I never gave a thought to AIDS," recalls Kris. "I didn't even know there was a threat." After two frustrating years of incorrect diagnosis, the disease was finally identified, first as AIDS- related complex, then as AIDS. She does not know who gave her AIDS or whom she might have infected. "I am sure I have passed on the virus. I can't get in touch with him. If I could, I don't know whether to tell him and let him spend the rest...
...Soviet media we are seeing a complex but expanding process of "de- tabooization." High officials are openly criticized, including government ministers and regional party first secretaries, some of whom are members of the Central Committee. This criticism is not always followed by dismissals, as would have happened in the past, which means that criticism now is a standard for behavior and not a tool of punishment. There have been cases when sycophantic bosses, to curry favor, punished underlings who objected to some aspect of the campaign for restructuring our economy -- and those bosses were in turn severely chastised for attempting...
...voucher system is what enabled Angela Henderson, 26, her husband Chris and two children to move last April from an apartment complex in Bloomington, Minn., to a duplex in Brooklyn Park, a Minneapolis suburb of ranch-style houses. The family is thrilled with the extra space and privacy. "You're not having all those people above and underneath you and across from you," says Henderson. "I can go and do the wash when I want to instead of waiting. It's more like a home." In Bloomington the Hendersons paid $435 a month for their apartment. In Brooklyn Park...
...brother of Ohio Congressman Tony P. Hall, was arrested outside an air force base near Managua with hand-drawn maps and sketches of military installations hidden in his socks. He was promptly accused of spying. The self-styled mercenary, described by former colleagues as having a Rambo complex, claimed that he was the sole surviving member of an anti-Communist fighting force called the Phoenix Battalion...
After two weeks of ferocious shelling by Iranian forces, Iraq's besieged southern port city of Basra is becoming a ravaged wasteland of damaged buildings and pockmarked streets. Toxic gas has engulfed an area south of the city where Iranian artillery barrages set fire to a petrochemical complex. Demoralized and frightened, thousands of the city's 1 million residents have reportedly fled north to the capital of Baghdad in cars, on bicycles and on foot. Said a U.S. official: "If there is a victory in this for the Iranians, it is that they have been able to create the impression...