Word: higher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill turned higher education from afairly genteel and elite fare relevant for a smallminority into mass education," says ThomasProfessor of Government and of Sociology ThedaSkocpol...
...Class of 1949, with its mixture of veteransand high school students, and its diverse range ofsocio-economic and geographic backgrounds,represented clearly the shift that was takingplace in American higher education...
...AIDS advocacy group. Most troubling, though, is that doctors often fail to consider HIV as a possible illness among their senior patients. As a result, the elderly are often misdiagnosed. Also, AIDS symptoms like dementia and weight loss can mimic the ravages of old age. "So there is a higher prevalence of people being diagnosed in the month of death," says Dr. Karl Goodkin, an associate professor at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Goodkin, who is conducting a national study on the rate of cognitive impairment in HIV-infected elderly, says the virus proceeds to full-blown AIDS...
...early '90s, has prodded her husband's boss to ask Congress to spend more money to treat the mentally ill. President Clinton backs a bill in Congress to force employers to help too by providing equal insurance coverage for mental and physical health. (Currently, insurance plans can charge higher co-payments for psychiatric visits than for other medical care.) Clinton aims to set an example by announcing at the conference that the Federal Government will begin providing its employees equal benefits for mental and nonmental ailments...
...LOST CAUSE G. Gordon Liddy (6), at the Virginia Military Institute, to its first graduating class to include women: "[Women] were trained separately, and they did noncombat work. That was vital, and they did it splendidly... When you are rising to higher ranks...put it back right...