Word: jolts
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...months, health professionals have meticulously tested every pint of blood in the nation's reserves for the AIDS virus. The hugely successful effort, which costs more than $50 million annually, has rendered negligible a once ominous threat to recipients of blood transfusions. But the convention proceedings got a jolt when Dr. Luc Montagnier of Paris' Pasteur Institute informed the assembly that an AIDS virus called LAV-II, whose presence in two West Africans was announced last spring, has now been found in Western Europe. According to Montagnier, LAV-II does not necessarily show up in screening procedures for the original...
That Reagan may have wandered farther into his golden vision of a world without nuclear weapons and Gorbachev misunderstood is likely. The President has done this on other occasions in the past. That his mind would have caught up soon, even without the jolt he got on SDI, is also likely. Certainly the world's nervous kibitzers would have pulled up short -- and have...
...week. Rasheed is the Miami shopkeeper who became the focus of nationwide publicity last month after a booby trap in his store killed a would-be robber. He claimed that he thought his trap -- a pair of metal grates attached to an outlet by an extension cord -- would merely jolt intruders, not execute them. "I don't know the first thing about electrical wiring," Rasheed insists...
Sarah Jane Holcombe '86-'87, an organizer of Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Choice, said the rally was "a good way to jolt the issue into people's minds...
Vacationing Americans Robert Annadle and his wife Pam Ascanio, who were inside a pizza parlor when the initial jolt hit, said the tremor damaged Bloom Children's Hospital across the street...