Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apparent swipe at the presidential campaign of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, the Boston Herald this week revealed that six temporary shelters for the homeless, including Harvard's University Lutheran Shelter, would close due to a state-level "fund feud...
...office, an all-time Hollywood record. Now E.T. is finally getting set to materialize in video stores. But a mystery surrounds the cuddly alien's long- awaited debut on videocassette, scheduled for this fall. Will E.T. be priced in the stratosphere or at a more down-to-earth level...
Gorbachev, meanwhile, was striving for a peaceful solution. After sending four top-level troubleshooters to the region and issuing a public plea for restraint, the Soviet leader met secretly in the Kremlin with two well-known Armenian writers, Zori Balayan and Silva Kaputikyan. Gorbachev promised them that he would personally study the Armenian demands. As soon as that message was relayed to Yerevan, the protest leaders agreed to suspend the demonstrations for one month. In Nagorno-Karabakh, however, at least two Azerbaijani youths were killed in clashes with Armenians...
Officially, of course, the shortage has not really endangered people's lives. "Often the level of T.L.C. that a patient expects -- the back rub, the hand holding -- doesn't get done in today's intense environment," says Allan Anderson, president of Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. "But I don't think there is any evidence that the quality of hospital care has deteriorated...
Unless drugs are attacked at every level, the U.S. may continue to flail at the problem. With a touch of sarcasm and a call for much stronger action on all drug fronts, including education, treatment and enforcement, Sterling Johnson, a special narcotics prosecutor in New York City, declared sadly, "If we are winning the war on drugs, every American better just pray each night that we don't lose...