Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year's Penn game certainly has something to do with it. The Quakers were the 13th-ranked team in the nation before they faced the Crimson on October 1 at Soldiers Field. Penn fell, 2-1. The Quaker field hockey dynasty--it had won three Ivy titles in the last four years--was crumbling...
Despite the substantial costs (average lifetime care for a person with AIDS: about $83,000), a fifth of those infected with the AIDS virus have no insurance at all. Increasingly, these people are flooding into overburdened public hospitals, raising fears of bankruptcies. In August the National Public Health and Hospital Institute reported that in 1987 only 5% of the nation's hospitals, most of them in inner cities, were treating 50% of the country's AIDS patients. Bellevue Hospital Center, which has one of the biggest emergency rooms in New York City, is overwhelmed to the point that care...
...Guide: Dallas, Miami Vice, Sesame Street, L.A. Law, even such oldies as I Love Lucy. American-made shows account for some 70% of the Continent's programming. Last week, however, the European Community took a step toward reclaiming its prime time from the foreigners. The twelve-nation E.C. adopted rules, to take effect in 1990, calling on its networks to broadcast a majority of European-made entertainment programs...
...landowners on the island of Bougainville has idled one of the world's largest copper mines and terrorized the town of Panguna and its environs. The rebels are seeking higher royalties from the mine's joint owners, an Australian company and the government of Papua New Guinea, an island nation in the southwest Pacific...
...that loss, alas, had already been felt. The starched tablecloths and silver on the Canadian have long since disappeared from the dining car, and the salmon dinner has lately been spawned in a microwave. And yet the romance lingers. "The train is what welded a widespread and thinly populated nation together," says Canadian novelist W.O. Mitchell, who rode the freights across his native prairies during the Great Depression. "I don't guess that's too relevant now with air travel and cars and television, but it doesn't change my sadness at seeing what's happening...