Word: interruptible
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incidence that is four times greater for blacks than for whites. If present trends continue, blacks and Hispanics might constitute as much as 40% of the predicted 54,000 AIDS deaths in 1991. Warns Dr. Wayne Greaves, chief of infectious diseases at Howard University Hospital: "Unless we can interrupt this pattern of transmission, this disease could potentially affect the size of the black population...
...memorial service in Washington would have pleased Malcolm Baldrige, who died four days earlier, crushed by a falling cow pony while roping a steer. In his eulogy, Ronald Reagan described the late Commerce Secretary as direct and unpretentious. He told of how Baldrige had ordered his staff to interrupt him for only two types of phone calls. "I was one," Reagan said, "and any cowboy who rang up was the other." In deference to Baldrige, Reagan decided not to begin the search for his successor until this week...
...other hand, Sullivan was startlingly contentious. He ferociously attacked Nields and Liman on procedural points and claimed they were not treating his client fairly. While accusing the panel of stalling, he proved himself a master of the same technique: whenever Liman seemed to have North cornered, Sullivan would interrupt the questioning with an objection or whispered advice for his client. Says a friend of Sullivan's: "He objects when he wants North to be able to think about his answer. He also tries to throw off the timing of the opposing counsel...
Hart's personal financial situation is not precarious, say close colleagues, but he has so little accumulated wealth that with two children in college, he needed to begin work immediately. Said Dixon: "Like the rest of us, he can't afford to interrupt that income stream. He can't just take a year off and write novels." The author of two novels already, Hart does hope to start another one in his spare time...
Prof. Kennedy offered his view that there can come a point where a speaker's views are so abhorrent or "beyond the pale" that private citizens have or should have the legal right to interrupt such speech and thereby prevent its dissemination. His position, in short, was that one may and even should decide whether or not to allow a particular speech by examining the content of that speech. Prof. Kennedy was referring, in particular, to student efforts to interfere with a speech given by South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown...