Word: flock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...health officials are concerned about the growing popularity of self-medication with drugs purchased south of the border. "Anyone who buys drugs without a prescription is taking a terrific risk," says Dr. Laurance Nickey, director of the El Paso City County Health District. Thousands of American cancer patients still flock to Mexican clinics each year for treatment with Laetrile, whose alleged curative powers have been discredited by U.S. health authorities...
...White House has a deadline of Oct. 4 for presenting a draft agreement to Congress. After that, Reagan and Mulroney will have the perhaps tougher job of convincing a contentious flock of U.S. and Canadian regional interests that the deal is a good one for all. Only then will it be clear that two close friends have truly created what Reagan last week hailed as a "pioneering agreement worthy of a pioneering people...
...Harvard education is not all books, as graffiti will attest. While most of their classmates are out with members of the opposite sex on Friday and Saturday nights, some more diligent Harvard students flock to the libraries where they spend their time...thinking about going out with members of the opposite...
...said it. While the visit was only one stop in a two-week South American tour that also included Uruguay and Argentina, the six-day Chilean stay was the centerpiece. The question on everyone's lips: What would the activist Pope tell his authoritarian host and oppressed flock? Pinochet, 71, is one of South America's two remaining military dictators.* A practicing Roman Catholic, as are 10 million of Chile's 12 million people, he has ruled with an iron hand, claiming that the threat of Communism justified his repressive regime. Opponents accuse the government of imprisoning, torturing and killing...
Taking a page of the Democrat's book. Dole decided to filibuster, hoping to use the time gained to shepherd one of the 13 stubborn Republicans back into the President's flock. The delay was accomplished with a series of motions and countermotions. The text of each motion, printed across the television screen by C-Span, soon approached self-parody...