Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...directors of University Health Services (UHS) say they can best fight AIDS within Harvard's population by teaching people how to avoid the virus. Pointing to earlier experiences with sexually transmitted diseases, they say the University community usually has low levels of infection and responds quickly to educational campaigns on health...
...adjust to the departure of the Soviets, who are scheduled to complete their troop withdrawal by Feb. 15. The government has 150,000 troops dug in around major cities. To face them in a final showdown, Massoud is training 10,000 men, initial units of an "Islamic army," to fight like a conventional force, rather than as hit-and-run marauders. Training, in camps spread along the rugged northern flanks of the Hindu Kush, includes the use of U.S.-supplied Stinger antiaircraft missiles as well as heavy artillery, rockets and a few highly treasured tanks. "But," Massoud concedes, "we have...
...passage last month of a $1 billion-plus AIDS bill has given a vital boost to research, testing, education and home health care for that incurable disease. But Ronald Reagan has refused to use his Executive power or persuasive skills to fight discrimination against AIDS victims, even though the presidential commission on AIDS recommended that he do so. Recent surveys indicate that 25% of Americans do not want to work beside an AIDS carrier. And 40% do not want someone with AIDS living in their neighborhoods. The Administration's silence on this issue has sanctioned prejudice and baseless fears that...
...unveiled a streamlined approval process. In 1982 the agency announced several timesaving steps, including a call for better communications between the FDA and manufacturers. Last year, after vociferous protests from people suffering from AIDS, the agency established a fast track for drugs that might help in the fight against the eight-year-old epidemic. So far, however, only one very expensive medication, which can cause severe anemia, has been approved -- Burroughs Wellcome's Zidovudine...
...seems the National Basketball Association season runs longer than a presidential election. Twenty-five teams, with the recent addition of Miami and Charlotte, will fight for 16 playoff spots over the course of six months...