Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...either side of the debate suggests that solutions will be easy to find. No matter what remedies are proposed or adopted, thousands will remain unemployed and unemployable, and for them the prospects are bleak. A strained federal budget may mean more cuts in benefits and greater demands on private agencies and churches to fill the gap. Mayor Koch and his followers have suggested an ad campaign listing reputable charities and government agencies where panhandlers can get help and concerned New Yorkers can send donations...
Victims of these practices counter that testing positive does not necessarily mean a person will develop AIDS. Nor does the presence of carriers, or even those who have come down with AIDS, endanger the workplace, critics insist, because medical evidence indicates that the virus cannot be transmitted by casual contact. Discrimination on the basis of the blood tests may actually harm public health, they warn. "If you fear you are going to lose your job and just about everything else in your life," says Katherine Franke of the New York City Human Rights Commission, "there is no incentive to take...
...literary marketplace, "breakthrough books" are the ones that finally get what publishers like to refer to as the audience their authors deserve. Breakthroughs also mean big enough sales to justify past advances for all those critically successful though financially disappointing books that had to be remaindered. But not every good writer produces bulldozers. Anne Tyler has only dented the best-seller lists. She has a loyal following of reviewers as well as general readers. But one does not think of her as a breakthrough writer. After eleven novels, she just grows...
...West, meanwhile, there is concern that Zia's death may mean that Pakistan will retreat from its vigorous support of the Afghan rebels. Zia had personally supervised the CIA-financed and Pakistani-run operations that gave sanctuary, training and arms to Afghan resistance fighters. Though many Pakistanis opposed aiding the rebels, Pentagon officials are convinced that General Baig and his senior military staff know where their interests lie. "The geopolitical realities remain even if Zia is gone," said a Defense Department official. "Pakistan cannot accept a Soviet-dominated Afghanistan on one border and India on the other." Those who consider...
This last seems to mean that Quayle has the requisite brood for competing in the campaign's family wars, not large enough to overshadow the podium-packing Bushes but appealing enough to get good press. Quayle lives a quiet, suburban life in McLean, Va., with three blond children and a handsome wife he married in 1972, ten weeks after their first date. The daughter of physicians, Marilyn Quayle is also a political "twofer": a lawyer who has decided not to work, she can appeal to the emerging Gloria Steinems of the G.O.P. without threatening the Phyllis Schlaflys...