Word: making
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Governor knows his support is fragile. He regularly tours local communities, listening to teachers and parents in an attempt to counter public apathy. Says Harold Carl, superintendent of Pleasants County schools: "We are on the right track. Now the big chore is to take the reform, master it and make it work...
...Congress adjourned last week for its August recess, the capital-gains-cut bandwagon gained momentum. Amazingly, Republicans and conservative Democrats, who make up a narrow majority of the House Ways and Means Committee, rallied around a scheme even more shortsighted than the President...
...high cost of AZT -- $7,000 to $8,000 a year -- will make it difficult for any but the wealthy or the well insured to receive the drug. Some state Medicaid programs pay for AIDS treatment only when the disease is far advanced. People who take AZT to stall the onset of AIDS may not be covered. Burroughs Wellcome Co., which manufactures AZT, is now seeking FDA clearance to use the medication in pre-AIDS patients. If the Federal Government permits the number of consumers to go up, presumably the price will come down...
Thus Poland once again strode to the brink of a political abyss, then pulled back. Legislators opted to make the best of the bargain struck at the round- table talks three months ago, when Communist Party and Solidarity leaders agreed on the broad outlines of a program for achieving political pluralism and a more open economy. That meant, among other things, a continuation of Communist Party rule. Acceptance of the scheme has been grudging at best, and its future course is anything but certain. The delicate political balance is threatened by radicals within Solidarity who are itching to leave...
...magazine, which has long berated the team for unconscionable foot dragging. In the latest issue, editor Herschel Shanks brands the new timetable "a hoax and a fraud." Shanks insists that "the scrolls will never be published by the current team" because the task is too huge. The squabbling should make for heated talk at a conference of scrolls experts later this month in the Netherlands...