Word: dicey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unlike New York and most other urban centers, New Haven had a group of public-health workers who, when faced with the AIDS epidemic, pulled together to confront a politically dicey issue. "It was a very methodical process," says Elaine O'Keefe, director of the AIDS division for New Haven's health department. The New Haven workers spoke out about the value of needle exchange at civic meetings, classrooms and churches. Then, after building support from the ground up, they forced the issue into local elections. A special act of the state legislature was required to lift...
...budget ("It cost $70 million." "I heard 80. Who'll go for 90?"). Says Variety reporter Charles Fleming: "The only way you make money on a picture like this is if everybody in America goes three times." But all will be forgotten if director Tim Burton, who has turned dicey projects into hit movies, can do it again. "Studios are paying more attention to the bottom line," says Anne Thompson, industry maven for the L.A. Weekly, "but they still spend a lot on these big locomotive items, the sequels...
...suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel to discuss their new film, Howards End. "I'm the President, he's Congress, and she's the Supreme Court." The usually taciturn Prawer Jhabvala demurs, "They're more like Laurel and Hardy." Or the fabulous Baker boys, harmonizing from one dicey project to the next, with Prawer Jhabvala as their stern muse...
Wind's success says something about a dicey political issue: Should government tamper with free enterprise to nurture a new technology? The answer for renewable energy sources is definitely yes. Had manufacturers and utilities not received state and federal assistance early on, the future of wind power would now be controlled by either Japan or Europe; both have consistently funded wind research. Today American technology dominates the field...
...those years Thomas got the campus Black Student Union to adopt guidelines for the behavior of men in the dormitory who had women guests on the weekends. The code included rules for dress, language and how to deal with the dicey bathroom issue. "He was acutely aware of these things at 21," says Clifford Hardwick, a friend who is now an attorney in Savannah, "when many of us weren't even thinking about them...