Word: generality
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Also true, but in this case irrelevant, is the statement regarding the growing AIDS problem, among intravenous drug users. While AIDS has shown a clear statistical shift towards this group, its incidence is rising in the general population, both heterosexual and homosexual. It is to this alarming increase that the council and House Committees are addressing themselves...
...taking concrete steps to encourage the use of condoms is highly inappropriate. No doubt, many of us know people who have died of AIDS, many of us are sexually active and are concerned with contracting it, many of us are purely concerned with public health. Unless the Surgeon General is also simply interested in "prurient thrills," we should conclude that he is correct when he says that "barring abstinence, the use of a condom is the best means of preventing the spread of AIDS. Noam Bramson...
...rebels have given up the insurgency. Moreover, animosity lingers between some of the returned rebels and government forces. One day last week the morning calm in Kabul was shattered by bursts of machine-gun fire. It seems a tribal leader, a former rebel who is now a general in the Afghan army, took exception when security troops refused to let his armed bodyguards past a checkpoint not far from the National Assembly meeting hall. The ensuing fire fight left eleven dead and the general nursing wounds in a hospital...
...relations with the Muslim world have deteriorated, the Red Army's reputation for effectiveness has been tarnished, and Gorbachev's overtures to China and the U.S. have been hindered. One strong indication of the war's diplomatic cost was last month's 123-to-19 vote in the U.N. General Assembly demanding withdrawal of Soviet troops, which came despite a Soviet public relations campaign seeking to justify the occupation...
...document is a rarity because Einstein discarded most manuscripts after they were published. In this case, publication was delayed by World War I. In the meantime, Einstein put aside the work and began to incorporate its ideas into a general theory of relativity...