Word: live
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gambling-related information that came out of the two-day hearing shocked fans who had embraced Rose as a symbol for baseball. Radio and television carried large segments of the testimony live...
That did not appear to matter in the red-walled Zhongnanhai compound, where China's leaders live and work. The dead apparently did not matter either to the aging revolutionaries who came to power by force 40 years ago -- and used force to keep it. Reason itself did not seem to matter. The government that once trumpeted the need to "seek truth from facts" manufactures facts to buttress lies...
...executives would fight to repel the intruder. In a three-page "Dear Mr. Davis" letter, Munro chastised the Paramount chairman for breaking his spoken agreement to leave Time alone: "On a personal level, I'm disappointed that I can't rely on you as a man of your word. Live and learn." Munro said the Paramount offer consisted of "smoke and mirrors," since it was subject to several conditions that included Paramount's ability to obtain financing and regulatory approval, a process almost certain to take longer than the Time-Warner proposition had. Such conditions, Munro argued, could...
...people infected with the AIDS virus live longer, some are drawn back to high-risk behaviors such as unprotected sex or needle sharing, which exposed them to the virus in the first place. Investigators in New York City have found that nearly a third of the intravenous drug users who stopped sharing needles because of the AIDS scare later started again. A study of gay men in Chicago has shown that a quarter of those who had begun to practice safe sex occasionally reverted to unprotected sex. Officials in San Francisco are concerned that these behavioral relapses may soon trigger...
...Soviet political life, while the Soviet leader accused the Nobel Peace laureate of trying to "belittle" the new parliament's achievements. There were also painful disclosures about the dreadful state of the Soviet economy. Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov admitted that some 40 million Soviets, or 13% of the population, live below the poverty level, that the Afghanistan war had cost about $70 billion and that the country's foreign-trade deficit this year will reach $52 billion. (The U.S. foreign-trade deficit last year was $119.8 billion.) In an attack on the economic front, Ryzhkov proposed cuts of almost...