Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest in a series of testing advisories to groups at risk of AIDS infection, the sweeping nature of the draft proposal caused considerable alarm as well as widespread criticism of the CDC. The outcry may have been exacerbated by the way in which the advisory became public. It was leaked early last week and was only released by the CDC, in more cautious language, several days later. Immediately following the leak, telephone lines at blood centers and American Red Cross chapters were flooded with calls from panicky transfusion recipients, and top public health officials from New York State, New York...
...Timothy Britton, a piper, pipemaker and transcendental meditator, comes over to have a look. "The reed's cracked," he says after a quick inspection. "Here, try some Krazy Glue." More trouble from across the room: a cigar-chewing piper, improbably named Roy Rogers Jr., has a mysterious air leak. "Blow some smoke into the bag and see where it comes out," advises Britton...
...this intensity began to leak out of his work after the shooting, and by the end of the '70s it was gone. His energy last flickered in the hieratic images of Mao Tse-tung (1973) and perhaps in the 1976 paintings of hammers and sickles. The rest was mostly social portraiture, liquor endorsements and bathetic collaborations with junior burnouts like Jean-Michel Basquiat, along with one single-theme edition of prints after another. But even in decline, Warhol remained indicative...
Increasingly at odds with the Thatcher government, BBC executives felt particularly harassed: the government had known about the leak since last summer, and the BBC had already decided not to air the Zircon expose because of possible damage to Britain's national security...
...asbestos was removed because some of the pipes have leaks, Curtin said, adding that Harvard has to remove the insulation before it can fix the leak. "We were notified by the building manager in order to get to a leak in the pipes," she said. "There was no health hazard...