Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more recent action down at City Hall this spring, a first-term city councilor has offered a series of scandalous proposals which would weaken, if not destroy, rent control and Cambridge's method of providing low-cost housing to its neediest citizens. Throughout the whole legislative debate, however, Harvard's large legislative lobbying staff was conspicuously quiet on the matter--and no wonder, given the University's poor track record on rent control...
...contrast to Luns, who echoed Reagan's violently anti-Soviet rhetoric, Carrington has expressed "polite disagreement" with such a method. Nevertheless, he has toned down his own disapproval of the U.S. since his ascension to the leadership of the military resource-pooling of "15 sovereign nations, one of which is much more sovereign than the others," as Hoffman says. He adds that today's speech will be "one of the first times since he took the job that he'll have a chance to speak openly about Reagan's ideas...
...inner city; a recent survey by the cocaine hotline indicates that most abusers are men between the ages of 20 and 35, and that more than half the nation's so-called crackheads are black. In some instances, say experts, heroin addicts have turned to the seemingly safer method of smoking cocaine because of the spread of AIDS among needle-using junkies; some of the seedy, smoke-filled "base houses" where crack is sold and consumed were formerly shooting galleries for heroin. But crack's low cost has also made it particularly appealing to adolescents. Kids as young as twelve...
...what Cuomo calls "my defense budget"--money appropriated for law- and-order--he has built more than 6,000 new prison cells for the overcrowded New York system. He has proposed a Medicaid bill that reforms the method of payment, saving the state money. New York has begun an innovative program to provide capital construction money to nonprofit groups to build housing for the homeless. It has also pioneered a variation on "workfare" programs, permitting welfare recipients to receive job training...
Chemically creating a drug which stops a specific viral function, a method called rational drug design, is not the only way researchers go about looking for a chemical cure for AIDS. Haseltine's lab is also helping to design a drug screening program...