Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traced and alerted. The measure's chief proponent, Republican Congressman William Dannemeyer, says he wants to correct the state's "absurd policy" of turning a "public-health issue into a civil rights issue." But Benjamin Schatz, a lawyer with National Gay Rights Advocates, calls the proposition an "AIDS hysteria law." The referendum measure, which has a good chance of passing, could affect the anti-discrimination movement nationwide. Few things are as influential in framing a developing legal landscape as some solid election returns...
Never before has the light bulb, once considered the most innovative creation of the past 100 years, created so much hysteria. Run for your lives, the lights are on at Wrigley. Yogi and the fat lady can start singing now. It's going, going, gone...
...maybe there was more than cynicism behind the idea. The drug problem--some would say hysteria--has risen to the top of the public's list of concerns, and polling shows that Americans view drugs as the number one problem facing the country. With this concern in mind, the Republicans have been thinking about naming a Drug Czar of their...
...national sickness of racial hostility becomes almost unbearable. One night Smith heard the roar of cars racing past his house, the squeal of tires, then the rattle of gunfire and an explosion. Sometime later the phone rang, and the black woman on the line sounded on the edge of hysteria. She and her husband were known as antiapartheid activists. Their house had just been fire-bombed, and two of her sister's children had been badly burned...
...those interned, the formal apology and the removal of the stigma of disloyalty may count for far more than the cash. The country is also apologizing to itself for trampling its own core values. As the Senate bill says unflinchingly, the internment policy "was caused by racial prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership...