Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOSCOW, Russia: New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, meet your equal. Responding to a traffic altercation three weeks ago in which diplomats from Russia and Belarus claim to have been battered by New York police, powerful Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov recently oversaw a special operation, code-named "Foreigner," in which city traffic police zoomed in on foreign-owned cars, levying fines and confiscating license plates. Roughly 1,000 cars were stopped by city traffic cops, known by their Russian acronym GAI (gai-EE), during the two-day operation, which ended Thursday. Famed throughout Moscow for their ability to disperse fines...
...person from Cambridge [would be accepted], everything being equal," agrees Dr. Samuel Framondi, who retired last June after 26 years as a guidance counselor in Cambridge schools...
...blood tests indicated that the viral load was close to zero throughout the middle years, though it would gradually increase as time went by. Both Ho and Shaw realized, however, that zero doesn't always equal zero in the world of HIV. For one thing, the virus might be hiding out in the lymph nodes, where it could be producing thousands or even millions of copies of itself every day. As long as the immune system cleared those infectious particles as quickly as they formed, blood tests would show no change in viral load. "It's like a person running...
Some of the men have been treated for more than a year. None of them show any trace of HIV in any of their blood. Ho has not forgotten, however, that zero does not always equal zero. He and Markowitz are looking for pockets of virus in the lymph tissue, the semen and the spinal fluid...
...more money now, but it actually has to be earned: no more quick fortunes peddling junk bonds. And no money just for showing up. Bonuses now are tied to profits, not revenues, and are spread around more widely. Goldman Sachs, for instance, is giving even its support staff bonuses equal to 25% of their base pay. Says a senior executive at Lehman Brothers: "Since the '87 crash, people making money are suspicious about how long it will last, and have a little less hubris...