Word: controls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forbidden to speak at any Catholic institution in the U.S. Stallings is unapologetic. "I have been caught up in the spirit of destiny," says the rebel priest. "I know I am breaking canon law. But to stir up the conscience of a nation, I'll do it. When laws control, then laws enslave...
Although FDA officials dispute the notion, some experts are concerned that the use of unproven medications may be getting out of control. So many AIDS patients are taking a pharmacological stew of approved and experimental drugs and potions that it is difficult to gauge the effectiveness of any single drug. Underground studies of experimental drugs, like the Compound-Q effort, confuse an already complex situation and frustrate scientists. "They're violating all the standards of safe testing of new compounds," says Dr. Paul Volberding, an AIDS specialist at the University of California at San Francisco. The haphazard use of experimental...
...drop by the city's new hotel, equipped for international television reception, where the maids let them watch the music-video shows. Recently, the students have been tuning in to reports from China instead. George Orwell prophesied that advances in information technology would lead to Big Brother's total control. It is more likely that, as Reagan said, the "Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip...
Western experts have long had reservations about Soviet reactor design, but deficiencies may be even worse in the areas of fire prevention, systems monitoring and damage control. The most recent accident indicates that the Soviet navy may be facing another problem common to all sub fleets: long-term stress in aging vessels. The Echo IIs were built in the early and mid-'60s; last week's accident could point to insufficient maintenance...
...question is whether the policy shifts signify genuine change or skillful public relations. Tom Milliken, who heads TRAFFIC (Japan), part of the international organization that monitors the wildlife trade, gives Japan measured praise for its attempts to control commerce in endangered species. Says he: "Japan has gone from being the worst of the worst to being on a par with the worst of the European countries -- Italy and France." But on the issues of tropical logging and drift-net fishing, environmentalists are much more skeptical. Observes Japan's Yoichi Kuroda, co-author of a study titled Timber from the South...