Word: incurability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usefulness. Seat belts are an absolutely essential safety appliance in any airplane. During critical takeoff and landing maneuvers any one of a number of situations may occur requiring the crew to take emergency action resulting in rapid acceleration or deceleration. People not wearing seatbelts in such situations would certainly incur injuries through impact with bulkheads, seatbacks and even other passengers. Furthermore, during the enroute phase of flight, turbulence may be encountered which, besides just jarring the aircraft, can place it in a momentary "freefall" condition...
...budget proposal calls for a reversal of this trend. They would eliminate many of the established sources of financial aid, replacing them with an unsubsidized loan program that would force students to incur exorbitantly high debt levels in order to finance their education. The Reagan Administration attempts to justify this proposed change with the assertion that students, as the beneficiaries of a college education, should shoulder the major financial responsibility themselves...
...both the Reagan Administration and Congress have turned their attention toward welfare reform, Edelman has been warning against the delusion that the cycle of poverty and pregnancy can be broken quickly or cheaply. The intensive education and employment training that teens need both before and after childbearing "could incur equal or greater public costs than welfare," the C.D.F. reports. With teen pregnancy and poverty, says Edelman, "we are trying to change cultural + signals, to change the way people think -- and that doesn't happen overnight." That prospect will no doubt discourage many, but for Marian Wright Edelman it is another...
...inexcusable that the Harvard administration allowed itself to play into the hands of the Conservative Club and went so far as to incur financial expenses above and beyond the call of duty to provide police and cameras...
...basic American justification for sanctions can be seen in Archbishop Tutu's statement that there is no guarantee that sanctions will work, it is merely the last peaceful option. Is this possibility enough to allow the West to incur further hardship on an already oppressed populace? This must be a personal question. Yes, even in the event that sanctions do work, however unlikely that may be, and when ultimately a Black government does (as it inevitably will) come into power, will the West guarantee to reinvest the money it has withdrawn and restimulate a dying economy? Mark Suzman...