Word: half-year
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...appeared on his legs. At the urging of a friend, Jack, a homosexual, went to a doctor. The swollen glands were a sign that his immune system was depressed; the penny-size leg spots were Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), the so-called gay cancer. During the next half-year, Jack (not his real name) began chemotherapy and struggled against a series of infections. In the process, he lost 30 Ibs., all of his hair, most of his hearing and, because of chronic irritation to his throat, his voice. He is still hanging...
Whatever happens in the coming elections, they will mean less nationally than the massed punditry of the press attempts to impose meaning on them. What is increasingly clear to almost everyone is that changes in Congress and the statehouses will barely affect in the next half-year the central problem before us: the rejuvenation of the wealth-making capacity of the nation. Even within the White House, when the men and women who counsel Reagan are being frank with themselves, they admit that if there is no better economic news soon, then that delicate bond of trust between the people...
...exams demand only temporary mental photocopying and a brief encounter with the machine itself--not an experience likely to yield affection for the Polymorphic Programming Language. If Harvard thinks it's important to expose students to the wonders of the computer, the school should force everyone to take a half-year course on the subject, as is done with expository writing...
That was my last meal at the Blarney Stone. For the rest of the summer, I pounded the pavement for my lunch. It is now a full half-year since I ate my way down South Avenue from 55th St, to 49th St, but the landscape is still fresh in my memory, and I can--and often do--recite the litany of pushcarts that fed me last June, July, and August. In order, walking downtown...
Several hours of rancorous debate--filled with references to the city council elections only a month away--preceded the vote. The home rule petition asks the Massachusetts legislature to allow the sending of tax bills identical to the half-year bills homeowners paid at this time last fall...