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Wars are usually launched with the promise of a quick victory, with trumpets primed never to sound retreat. And the campaign against AIDS was no exception. Soon after researchers announced in the mid-1980s that they had discovered the virus that causes AIDS, U.S. health officials confidently crowed that a vaccine would be ready in two years. The most frightening scourge of the late 20th century would succumb to a swift counterattack of human ingenuity and high technology...
Maskin studies economics at Harvard, then taught at MIT before returning here in mid-1980s. Krishna said...
...that white Europeans, and thus their American descendants, are God's true chosen people. Though not endorsed by all believers in this anti-Semitic faith, the use of violence has been linked to the Order, a radical fringe underground group that sought unsuccessfully to overthrow the government in the mid-1980s...
Since the mid-1980s, Roman Catholic dioceses in most American states have coped with criminal cases, lawsuits and ugly rumors concerning priests and the sexual abuse of underage boys. Angry churchgoers say that bishops often covered up the scandals, shuttling wrongdoers to new parishes, where they preyed again. Now, on the eve of a meeting of the U.S. hierarchy at Indiana's Notre Dame University, Chicago's Joseph Cardinal Bernardin has issued a 93- page report that sets a promising new standard for confronting abuse...
...locals, or kelpers as they call themselves, have gained far more than they have lost. In the mid-1980s, the British government spent $1 billion to build a military base on the main island of East Falkland, where 2,000 troops are now garrisoned along with five Phantom fighter-bombers. London also earmarked more than $54 million for a development program that so far has furnished the islands with an improved water system, a new hospital and their first graded road, 35 miles long. At the same time, residents were encouraged to buy plots of land previously controlled by large...