Word: hoovers
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...there is a set of numbers that may deserve to be taken seriously. Joel Hay, a health economist for the Hoover Institution at Stanford, has used a statistical tool called "back calculation" to analyze data on AIDS infections. His surprising conclusion: about 640,000 Americans carry the virus. If he is right, the epidemic, while still devastating, may be only half as widespread as generally believed...
During the mid-1980s, Rather showed gripping scenes of battling troops and suffering civilians, most photographed by freelance cameraman Mike Hoover, 45. The images won CBS an award for news coverage. But the New York Post, citing sources in the U.S., Europe and Asia, said some scenes were fabricated. CBS officials said they believed the film was authentic but were looking into the charges. Among the Post's allegations...
...short time, Newton seemed to embody the spirit of ghetto uplift that the Panthers preached. After serving time in a celebrated case involving the shooting of an Oakland policeman, he earned a doctorate from the University of California. But after J. Edgar Hoover's FBI targeted the group, many of his fellow Panther leaders were killed, jailed or driven underground, and Newton's life returned to its meaner roots. Charges of murder and assault led to conviction for possessing a gun. There followed a string of drug offenses, drunk driving and embezzling $15,000 from a Panther-operated school...
...what lies in store is being published this week as August 1914 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 854 pages; $50 hardback, $19.95 paper). This novel first appeared in English in 1972; after his banishment from the U.S.S.R., Solzhenitsyn was free to explore new troves of archival material, particularly at Stanford's Hoover Institution, and has now expanded the text by some 300 pages. Much of the additional material concerns the evil (in Solzhenitsyn's view) activities of Lenin during Russia's hasty entrance into World War I, and the heroic (ditto) career of Pyotr Stolypin, the Prime Minister under Czar Nicholas...
...financial fantasy land. "Right now factory managers don't know when they're doing a good job. They can say they're profitable even though they're selling tractors for $2,000 when they should be selling them for $5,000," says Judy Shelton, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution in California and author of a new book titled The Coming Soviet Crash. But Moscow is cautious about letting plants determine prices for fear that the move would spark a burst of inflation and consumer outrage...