Word: greate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much better then. So much more honest. So much more exciting. Scandals never occurred. Great players never got traded. Solid managers never got fired. Back then, the players had heart and the game had integrity...
...thicket of state insurance laws makes it possible in some cases for private insurers to find ways to keep profits up and payments for AIDS care down. In 1985 one firm, the Great Republic Insurance Co., even issued an "AIDS profile" to its agents, instructing them to treat differently applications from "single males without dependents that are engaged in occupations that do not require physical exertion." These applicants were usually denied insurance. While such major insurers as Blue Cross/Blue Shield and the Travelers deny discriminating on the basis of AIDS, others still use information about living arrangements, residences...
Since Barco began his crusade against the coke barons eight weeks ago, one drug lieutenant has been extradited and the U.S. Justice Department has begun to pursue four others. "This is a great victory for the President and a tremendous blow to the narcos," declared National Police chief General Miguel Gomez Padilla...
...past century, imported tourists and Canadians alike have treasured his handiwork. The legendary Canadian is one of the last great, long, unforgettable rides left in the world and the only daily transcontinental run in North America. But those who dream of taking the journey will have to start packing...
...since disappeared from the dining car, and the salmon dinner has lately been spawned in a microwave. And yet the romance lingers. "The train is what welded a widespread and thinly populated nation together," says Canadian novelist W.O. Mitchell, who rode the freights across his native prairies during the Great Depression. "I don't guess that's too relevant now with air travel and cars and television, but it doesn't change my sadness at seeing what's happening...