Word: exceptional
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long after young homosexual men started dying by the thousands in the early 1980s. Dire warnings of an AIDS apocalypse came not only from headline writers but also, uncharacteristically, from scientists and health specialists. Declared one: "We have not seen anything of this magnitude that we can't control except nuclear bombs." In 1987 Otis Bowen, then Secretary of Health and Human Services, said AIDS would make black death -- the bubonic plague that wiped out as much as a third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages -- "pale by comparison." In a frightening, controversial book, sex researchers William Masters...
...these features have not come cheap, except in Japan. A U.S. homeowner who wanted automated control over an entire house had to have it custom wired by Unity or one of a handful of competing firms such as Hypertek in Whitehouse, N.J. These systems start at about $6,000 and go up quickly; the Arvays paid $22,000 for theirs...
Mubarak and Hussein, speaking separately in Cairo and Amman, discouraged any suggestion that Bush should come up with a new set of peace proposals. As they see it, all the parties to the conflict, except for the present Israeli government, already favor the convening of an international conference that includes Palestinian representation. "We don't need any more new ; initiatives," Hussein said. "There is a general agreement that an international conference would be the venue for the establishment of peace. All the parties have to participate. The Palestinians have to be involved. So we have to get on with...
Thus the wood-stove bore is without defenses, except to say that his obsession is unlikely to melt down New England and that it adds no net CO2 to the atmospheric greenhouse (a fallen tree gives off the same amount of carbon and oxygen whether it rots or burns, and a new tree that spreads in its place takes CO2 out of the air as it grows...
Does anyone share this illusion of a radical break today? Not likely. Precisely because the 19th century (except for impressionism and its consequences) was once shunned, for the past 20 years it has been the curator's mother lode. This new curiosity radiates not only from grand exhibitions like those of Degas and Courbet, but also from others more modest in size, like "The Romantic Spirit: German Drawings, 1780-1850," which is on view at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City through...