Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United Nations announced that over 11 million children have been orphaned by AIDS, with 95 percent of those orphans in sub-Saharan Africa. The effect of AIDS in these countries, which still lack adequate containment mechanisms, let alone treatment, is a daily terror. The region, which makes up less than five percent of the world's population, has been the home of more than half of the world's documented AIDS cases...
Churchill returned home as these campaigns ended--and as less talented but higher-ranking officers came to resent Churchill's fame. Then, at age twenty-three, he published his first book, a comprehensive account of the Malakand Field Force. He also insinuated himself into the battle of Omdurman, by which the British reconquered the Sudan. Although Omdurman was not the last cavalry charge of the Empire, it was last great charge, and Churchill again played a hero's role. He soon afterward left the army to stand for election to Parliament. He lost the election, but he used the leisure...
...with less than a month remaining before the New Year, that confidence is reassuring for the First Night organizers...
...Dobridge said the policy might make students less likely to get medical help when drunk for fear of being arrested...
...problems could come in a general election. Recent polls show that voters are more concerned with further reducing the national debt and shoring up Medicare and education than with tax cuts. So while wooing much of his own party, Bush could alienate many of the "Reagan Democrats" who are less concerned with personal financial stability than they were in leaner times, as well as Republican fiscal conservatives who may be more drawn to a conservative Reform party candidate. And many Democrats and Republicans could find fault with a plan that would spend more money than the Congressional Budget Office says...