Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major impediment to progress is the caution of the blacks, who are wary about pressing for advancement individually and, even more often, are not encouraged to do so. Also, some of the blacks who do achieve higher posts find themselves alienated from their friends and family and suffer severe stress symptoms...
...measure is opposed by Governor Reubin Askew, clergymen, parimutuel operators-and many of the state's leading newspapers. But instead of merely editorializing against the threat of corruption and organized crime, the papers have become major contributors of money to the antigambling efforts. Their role raises thorny questions of ethics and propriety...
Perhaps more troublesome is an attempt by pro-gambling forces to make the financial role of the press a major issue. Spokesman Sanford Weiner has questioned the objectivity of contributing news organizations, and has charged that a number of Florida television stations have refused pro-casino ads. (Though broadcasters are required by law to air opposing sides of a "controversial" public issue, the Federal Communications Commission has rarely forced stations to accept "controversial" advertising...
...only known victim is Janet Parker, 40, a medical photographer. She developed fever and a rash in early August, but two weeks passed before her illness was diagnosed as variola major, the severe form of smallpox. The time lag is understandable. There have been no smallpox deaths in Britain for five years, and doctors rarely see the disease...
Because the incident follows a similar one at a London hospital in 1973 that claimed two lives, it confirmed WHO'S belief that virus labs have become the last major source of smallpox danger. Already WHO has recommended that only five centers in the entire world, including the CDC in Atlanta, be allowed to store strains of the virus for research purposes. Birmingham was not one of these, and Bedson had planned to destroy his lethal collection...