Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slow to adapt to new needs, particularly the admission of AIDS patients. "She simply wouldn't allow an AIDS patient to breathe on St. Christopher's," says one observer. Her views have changed, but she still insists that any AIDS patients admitted must also be suffering from cancer. In fact, one such patient was admitted to the hospice's home-care program. Says Saunders: "Hospice didn't set out to look after everyone in the world who was dying of everything...
...young miners overturned cars in Silesia and strikers in Gdansk chanted, "Come to us, come to us," a traditional labor call for support, the fervor that swept the nation in 1980 was missing. Said a young doctor in Gdansk: "People don't believe these strikes can change much -- in fact, they think they will mainly help make things worse. There will be no coal for winter, no this, no that...
...rancid smells of rotting garbage," says Jeannie Little of Greenville, S.C., passing though the Windy City on a tour of the U.S. From an apartment in a pricey neighborhood she can see rats in the alley below snacking on spilled morsels. Says Little: "I'm horrified by the fact that we generate so much garbage and don't have a place...
...this light, the Soviet pullback in the Third World is an autonomous Soviet decision, the first fruit of Gorbachev's "new thinking." The problem with this theory is that it overlooks one fact. In this sense it is very much like the common explanation of Gorbachev's acquiescence to American terms for the INF treaty. Did Gorbachev withdraw his SS-20s from Europe because of a change in ideology? Because he wanted to turn his attention to domestic tasks? In fact, he withdrew because he met resistance that he could not overcome. The U.S. responded...
...fact, all sports have trouble recalling an occasion when the laws of the land superseded or even complemented the rules of the game. Within the white lines, berserk baseball players regularly brandish bats and spikes with legal impunity, and the football and basketball players who rampage beyond the whistle and the pale risk civil reparations at their worst. "It is time now," lectured Provincial Court Judge Sidney Harris, "that a message go out from the courts that violence in a hockey game or any other circumstances is not acceptable in our society." For one thing, he said, it "spills over...