Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acquaintances, a majority have been embittered by what they see as widespread hostility or neglect. They overwhelmingly believe that government at all levels has scorned and abandoned them, that the nation's leaders either actively welcome their suffering or, at best, do not much care whether they live or die. They are infuriated by talk of "innocent" victims of the disease, with its implication that gay victims are all guilty and deserve their fate. They are enraged that ostensibly sympathetic heterosexuals, including their own families, may voice concern but fail to grasp the depth of the emotional exhaustion, isolation...
...Harrington, a member of the New York City-based Treatment Action Group, summed up the situation more simply and grimly: "It's clear we're losing the battle. We have one class of drugs that slows AIDS down by two or three years, and then people go on and die...
...bomb goes off, six people die, their loved ones weep. For the second time in two months, furious Italians beat the air with their fists. This, they shout, is too much; the time has come to face down the Mafia, the romanticized clan of criminals they love to hate but refuse to confront. THIS IS ALL-OUT WAR! the headlines scream. What was rarely said last week, as a shocked and shamed Italy tensed for the next blow, was that the Mafia has evolved into the world's foremost crime organization because in its war with the state, only...
...shorter showers and banning the use of lawn sprinklers. The lush, green vegetation has begun to turn brown. Mule deer does are having trouble finding enough food in the woods to produce milk for their fawns. The spring chinook salmon run on Oregon's Rogue River had the largest die-off level in 15 years, attributed in part to low water levels. The situation is worst in Oregon, whose drought is expected to be the most severe in 120 years...
...Warner's annual meeting, held this year in Beverly Hills' Regent Beverly Wilshire, had more than financial statements on their minds. Police representatives and other critics blasted the company for releasing black rapper Ice-T's Body Count album and its Cop Killer cut, which contains such lines as "Die Pig, Die!" During the five- hour session, actor Charlton Heston denounced Time Warner for, among other things, shipping the compact discs to radio stations in miniature body bags. (A company spokesman said the bags were in keeping with the theme of the album, which includes cuts warning about the dangers...