Word: linking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Before that, we used to say that Harvard students thought "the community was a subway stop somewhere beyond Park St.," says Wesley E. Profit '69, a former president of Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). "I think it meant that people had to be on guard, that this link between the students and the community had been forged, and you didn't want it to happen again...
...weakest link in the country's monitoring system is seafood inspection. Consumption of fish has shot up 20% since 1980, to about 3 billion lbs. annually, mainly because it has been touted as beneficial to health. Yet it is the only food without a comprehensive, mandatory federal inspection program. The alarming fact is that about three-quarters of seafood arrives on diners' plates without a look-see by anyone...
Studies have long linked smoking and cancer of the cervix, which is expected to kill at least 6,000 women in the U.S. this year. Now a new study has not only confirmed the link but also concluded that women who breathe smoke from others' cigarettes -- so-called passive smoke -- are equally at risk for cervical cancer...
...Every serious reporter knew what the Reagan Administration was doing, raising money for the contras, but until the link with Iran was established and something really outrageous occurred, it wasn't considered a story," Bernstein said...
History shows that genetic misinformation can be severely damaging. Take, for example, the supposed link between the XYY chromosome pattern and criminal behavior. In 1965 a study of violent criminals in a Scottish high-security mental institution found that a surprisingly high percentage had a particular chromosomal abnormality: in addition to the X and Y chromosomes normally found in men, each carried an extra Y, or "male" chromosome. The press and public seized on the idea that these so-called supermales were genetically predestined to a life of crime. That interpretation proved false. Further investigations showed that the vast majority...