Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SUMMER OF '49 by David Halberstam (Morrow; $21.95). A quirky and informal account of the American League pennant race between the Red Sox and the Yankees deepens into a nostalgic memoir of a vanishing era, when people listened to the radio, traveled by train and went around the corner to see a movie...
...short, early intervention with new drugs is lengthening the time between diagnosis and death and offering the hope that a full life for the disease's victims may some day be possible. Said New York City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph in Montreal: "We are very close to turning the corner on this epidemic." But there is a price tag to this success. Medical bills for the growing pool of infected people will be staggering. And a surprising number of AIDS-virus carriers are returning to high-risk behavior that could spread the infection to others...
SUMMER OF '49 by David Halberstam (Morrow; $21.95). A quirky and informal account of the American League pennant race between the Red Sox and the Yankees deepens into a nostalgic memoir of a vanishing era, when people listened to the radio, traveled by train and went around the corner to see a movie...
Even if the Coop will not be opening up shop on Bow St., there is reason to believe the corner is due for a construction project. With its crumbling concrete eaves, noisy bar and dusty windows, the building may add character to the Square--but not the sort which chambers of commerce appreciate. And since the assessed value of the two-story structure is less than half that of the land under it--about $1 million as compared to $2.5 million--the Coop could improve its investment with a larger building...
...breakfast one day with the dean, but he doesn't mingle well," says second-year student Edward Schmults. "He sat in the corner talking with some administrative guy the entire time...