Word: containment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem, says the surgeon, is that cells from one person would be rejected by the immune system of the other. Another complication, he says, is that skin donated by others might contain viruses such as HIV, which causes AIDS...
Lowerison complains that her attempts to resolve her brother's case have been obstructed by Pentagon incompetence and dishonesty. When she sent her brother's purported phone message to Air Force analysts, they reported back that it contained no discernible human sounds. Only after she appeared on Donahue in June 1990 did the Air Force agree to re-examine the recording. This time it concluded that the message did in fact contain a human voice -- but there is no way of determining whose voice...
...this very day, whenever I go shopping, I utter a brief prayer and with great anticipation, check the ingredients on a Twinkie wrapping hoping that the company would get rid of the "may contain vegetable and/or animal shortening" clause and shorten it to just "vegetable shortening." I have yet to be so lucky...
...cook. And I have access to washing machines and dishwashers. Of course, I'm leading my life in premises that also contain armed policemen...
...After World War I, the U.S. rejected membership in the League of Nations, adopted a restrictive immigration policy and eventually enacted high tariff barriers. It took Pearl Harbor and then communist expansionism to make internationalism the basis of U.S. foreign policy. Even during the heyday of the effort to contain communism, "the public never fully bought the challenge," says Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution. "Only a bipartisan consensus among elites kept the country's latent isolationism...