Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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People say the grass is always greener on the other side, but nobody thought they meant the Radcliffe Quad...
Safety is usually the cited reason for setting apart those who test positive. Job Corps Director Peter Rell explains that his agency's exclusionary policy is meant to secure "as healthy and disease-free an environment as possible." All 36,000 participants in the agency's residential programs are warned of the test on enrollment forms, he says, and are provided with counseling if they are rejected because of the results. The high costs of treating AIDS patients is an actuarial problem for insurers, who routinely reject seropositives seeking life or medical coverage. "Once we sign on, we're there...
...higher levels too. When a senior Democratic Senator noted in conversation that the cold war might indeed have ended, he was saying no more than Ronald Reagan said upon his return from the Moscow summit when he talked of the end of the postwar era. Since postwar has always meant cold war, the President was signaling the advent of some historic change...
...stories and televised images of an increasingly bloody and, to many, pointless war in Southeast Asia. In university dorms and dining halls around the country, students endlessly discussed their overarching obsession: the draft and how to avoid it. "The stress was ungodly, enormous," says Wheeler. "Viet Nam meant death." It was in this highly charged atmosphere that J. Danforth Quayle, DePauw University class of '69, enlisted in the National Guard...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff had recommended in the early 1960s that the Guard be sent to Viet Nam, Army Guard units were assigned combat duty only in 1968-69. No more than 20 of the nation's approximately 4,000 units were ever called up. "What the Guard meant," says Jack Wheeler, "was not going to Viet Nam." One exception: Company D of the 151st Infantry, Indiana National Guard, served in Viet Nam from December 1968 to November 1969 and suffered 110 casualties...