Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during the past five years, these schools have had to fight as never before to keep even basic work in issues far removed from national security free from the new dissent-quashing mania. Among contracts recently offered to Harvard for unclassified research without rights of immediate publication are "International Comparison of Health Science Policies" for National Institutes of Health and "Study on Changing Economic Conditions of Cities" for Housing and Urban Development...
...freedoms of our more or less open society. With all its shadowy accusations and logical pratfalls, the Administration must not be allowed to dupe the public into fearing Commies when it should fear abridgements of the rights of speech and knowledge. We wish Harvard every success in its ongoing fight against the Pentagon's new McCarthyism and support its right to publish whatever scientific and social truths it finds and to bring here whichever scholars it chooses...
...menace to the general population. It surely is, if only because not enough is yet known about precisely how the syndrome is transmitted. Many ways in which AIDS might be transmitted can be hypothesized and not disproved. For example, suppose a child who had AIDS got into a schoolyard fight with one who did not, and they cut each other enough to bleed profusely. The uninfected child might get AIDS only if blood from the AIDS victim entered his body through a cut, which is unlikely but not impossible. As an extra precaution, some health authorities recommend that AIDS children...
...eliminated. Potential jurors were asked if they were Jewish, or had sympathies for anti- black, anti-Jewish or tax-protest groups. They were also asked if they could be fair to defendants who may not believe the Holocaust occurred. The Government hopes the trial will bring to fruition its fight against radical neo-Nazi hate groups. The drive was launched last year when authorities uncovered evidence (confirmed by the two witnesses heard before the trial recessed at week's end) that the Order had begun acting out a plot laid out in The Turner Diaries, a bizarre novel written...
...most serious epidemic in recorded medical history." Chimed in State Assemblyman Frederick Schmidt: "There is no medical authority who can say with authority that AIDS cannot be transmitted in school. What about somebody sneezing in the classroom? What about the water fountain? What about kids who get in a fight with a bloody nose? They don't know!" The crowd screamed and stomped. Cried Schmidt: "We should not experiment with our children...