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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wars in Chicago that a July vote against the creation of a Cabinet-level Veterans Department was a "mistake" resulting from "youthful indiscretion." He later tried to deny using the phrase, even though it had been broadcast on national TV, then explained that he thought his vote had been correct on the merits...
...challenged by a proposition on the November ballot. It would require that public-health officials be informed of all positive AIDS tests and that all sexual partners of those who test positive be traced and alerted. The measure's chief proponent, Republican Congressman William Dannemeyer, says he wants to correct the state's "absurd policy" of turning a "public-health issue into a civil rights issue." But Benjamin Schatz, a lawyer with National Gay Rights Advocates, calls the proposition an "AIDS hysteria law." The referendum measure, which has a good chance of passing, could affect the anti-discrimination movement nationwide...
Garakani bluntly explained the Ilizarov bone-stretching surgical procedure, developed in the Soviet Union to correct dwarfism, which Dr. Victor Frankel, president and head of orthopedic surgery at Manhattan's Hospital for Joint Diseases, intended to introduce into the U. S. The shin, thigh and upper-arm bones would be cut clear through, leaving only the bone cavity and the marrow intact. A special frame, with steel pins going through the bone on each side of the cut, would keep the pieces in line and allow them to be pulled apart a millimeter a day. New bone would form...
...singing, and the experience of his ((Hynes')) macho guy." But I relayed Hynes' difficulty in imagining George Bush singing round after round of The Fing Great Wheel. Bush is amazed that this image should amaze people: "I do sing it -- I did sing it. And how I correct public misperceptions I don't know, and I really don't think I've got time to try. But, you know, ask the guys I was with in the Navy. That's the way to do that. Go to the oil fields and talk to them. Don't believe the inside...
...life's frustrations for aficionados of the crime novel is the discovery that there are loved ones or esteemed friends who, having sampled the genre, view it with boredom or disdain. The most irritating aspect of the belittlers' criticism is that it is often correct, at least as applied to the humdrum majority among the hundreds of mysteries, thrillers, police procedurals and spy stories published in the U.S. each year. Characters are frequently sketchy, plots more elaborate than coherent, dialogue archly unnatural, and exotic settings tacked on rather than integral to the narrative. Many authors seem to think that...