Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report released last month by the House Government Operations Committee criticizes programs that do not provide adequate child care for participants. Said the study: "The lack of safe and affordable child care can foreclose the possibility of employment, training, education and even opportunity to job hunt." Moreover, say critics, workfare does not address America's most serious unemployment problem: the jobless rate among black teenagers is currently 41.6%, compared with 6.9% for the U.S. as a whole...
...brucellosis, or Bang's disease, which has been detected in some Yellowstone buffalo. The disorder can cause cows to abort, and spreads undulant fever in humans. Critics say Montana has not suffered an outbreak of brucellosis for 25 years, and that the kill is being held to please the hunting fraternity and cover up herd mismanagement by the Park Service. While the Fund for Animals, headed by Author Cleveland Amory, is suing to prevent the hunt, the state has more than 3,000 applications from hunters eager to shoot the once endangered beasts...
...Soviet doctor also told Hunt that Medved had been given neuroleptics--dopamine-blocking tranquilizers. Hunt writes that the doctor said that these drugs "were commonly used in his country to treat schizophrenics." In other words, crazies like Andrei Sakarov...
...whole, Medved is a lucky man. Hunt was "strongly entertaining the possibility of a major affective disorder, namely Bipolar Disorder or Manic Depressive Illness." But the mood passed. He "currently considers it more likely that [Medved] had an immature personality." Even "if he did suffer from Bipolar Disorder, then his jumping and defection attempt would likely have been secondary to the illness, and thus, still impulsive in nature...
Strangely enough, even after all his scientistic circumlocution, Hunt concludes that Medved was "clearly competent, to the extent that any Soviet citizen in his position could be, to make a decision in regards [sic] to defection...