Word: infection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Disclosures of hypocrisy and moral laxity infect leadership from Washington to Wall Street, tainting even television evangelists and the Semper Fi U. S. Marines. Do the transgressions represent a general shunning of values that Americans have always held dear, or are they merely a temporary blot brought about by the mindless materialism of the '80s? See ETHICS...
...Will Persuade You" and "Part The Seas" will stick in your mind, no matter how hard you try to forget them. Other songs, such as "Long Hot Summer," creep into your consciousness after repeated listenings. So approach 12 Days to Paris with caution, then, because its Ugly Rock will infect you and set your Huxton Creeper side free...
Many experts believe the really blatant cases of insider profiteering are rare, despite the hubbub. "The vast majority of the people on Wall Street are not doing it," says Edward Brodsky, a Manhattan securities lawyer. "Those who are, however, infect the integrity of the entire marketplace." Maintaining that integrity has been a difficult challenge in the deregulated, hurly-burly Wall Street of the 1980s, where traders have been tempted to use insider tips to maintain their competitive edge...
...West, modern medical facilities, blood- screening equipment and speedy communications may keep AIDS under control. But Africa is on the front line of what some researchers are already calling an AIDS pandemic. The African experience suggests the dangers and tenacity of AIDS: how thoroughly it can infect a heterosexual population, how difficult it can be to convince people to change their sexual behavior, even in the face of death...
...Kremlin is concerned that the state's struggle against religion has not been going well. Finally, the fact that Gorbachev chose Tashkent as the place to attack religion indicated that the Soviet leadership is specifically fearful about the currents of fundamentalist zealotry sweeping the Islamic world, which might eventually infect the fast-growing Muslim nationalities of Soviet Central Asia...