Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...epidemic has progressed more or less as the experts expected. New cases increased from about 22,000 in 1987 to 32,000 in 1988. Most of these victims picked up the virus years ago, before the dangers of AIDS became known. The Public Health Service forecasts that by the end of 1992, 365,000 Americans will have come down with AIDS, and 263,000 of these will have died...
...conceivable that AIDS will fan out from the ghettos into the general population, but not likely. If the spread occurs, it will be slow: many scientists believe the virus is passed along less readily in conventional intercourse than in homosexual encounters. Anal intercourse is by far the most likely means of sexual transmission. Although the evidence is sketchy, women seem to be more at risk than men of acquiring the virus from the opposite sex. So far, 1,757 U.S.-born women may have contracted AIDS from men, and 565 men from women...
...Cuban missile crisis, which seemed done to death on its 25th anniversary less than two years ago, is skillfully re-created. The show combines interviews with participants (including, thanks to glasnost, an aide to Nikita Khrushchev and another official who was the Soviet ambassador to Cuba at the time) and excerpts from secretly recorded tapes of John F. Kennedy's deliberations with his top advisers. In contrast to the traditional version of the episode, one of the leading hawks, at least initially, is the President's brother Bobby. He is heard suggesting that it may be necessary to "sink...
Using easy-to-follow formulas, the author demonstrates that the chance of falling victim to terrorists is less than 1 in 1.5 million (compared with, for example, 1 chance in 68,000 of choking to death or 1 in only 5,300 of dying in a car crash), that the number of possible five-card poker hands is 2,598,960 and that the size of a human cell is to that of a person as that of a person is to the size of Rhode Island. Paulos also notes that 367 people have to be gathered to ensure that...
Many West Germans were less concerned with the substance of the allegations against their country's exporters than with the damage to relations with the U.S. The public feud over the plant that Kohl carried on with Washington for nearly two weeks seemed to gather strength from other issues. These include U.S. pressure to continue low-flying Air Force exercises over West German territory, despite several accidents that have claimed civilian lives. Said Volker Ruhe, deputy parliamentary leader of Kohl's Christian Democratic Party: "These shrill tones show that the ice has become much thinner...