Word: cons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...None of these cases, however, has been directly connected to occupational exposure, insists Dr. James Curran, director of the CDC task force on AIDS. Even the Boston case is subject to question. So far, investigators have been unable to find out if the laboratory worker had actually handled AlDS-con-taminated blood. "Whether he got AIDS from the needle stick is unclear and is likely to remain unclear," says Curran...
...Most of the time reading period isn't much of a change for me--maybe one-fourth less work is assigned," added Michael M. Dowling '85, a biochemistry con concentrator...
...Star Wars: Pro and Con" [NATION, Oct. 29], you say that the best argument against President Reagan's space-based defense plan is that the system would have to be 100% effective but cannot be. The requirement of perfection is misleading. The key question: Shall we have an imperfect defense and save 90% of the U.S. from a Soviet attack or no defense and let the nation be destroyed...
...operation were to take place in this state, Bailey would have had to apply for a certificate of need (CON), she says. "We would have asked: will the operation take money and time away from patients who stand a much better chance of survival? Is it too expensive? What would be the quality of life afterwards? What would all the drugs do to her tiny body...
...also been closely associated with populist-conservative gurs Richard Viguerie, publisher of the Conservative Digest, who donsted $1000 to Shamie's 1984 campaign, included him on his list of 500 top givers to pop-con causes, and until recently was reportedly a close Shamie advisor...