Word: needing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present, many people at risk for Huntington's are reluctant to take it. "Before the test," Wexler says, "you can always say, 'Well, it can't happen to me.' After the test, if it is positive, you can't say that anymore." Has Wexler, 43, taken the test? "People need to have some privacy," she answers...
...heart of Moscow's newfound flexibility is Gorbachev's need to transfer scarce resources from the military to the civilian economy if he is to improve living conditions at home. By paring the military, Gorbachev aims to free not only investment resources but human resources as well. With public pressure building to reduce or even abandon the Soviet Union's unpopular conscription, Gorbachev said last October that the length of military service may be shortened. Presumably, for each good soldier lost, Moscow hopes to gain a good worker...
...make smaller payments on their principal and interest obligations. Brady left many of the plan's details vague, and the initial response from bankers, Congress and Latin American finance ministers was guarded. The Mexican government called the plan a "first positive step" but cautioned that many details still need to be worked out. New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, an outspoken critic of the old debt program, called it a "significant change in direction" and declared that the "Baker plan is dead...
...could occur virtually any day now. Tenor Mark Kibble, who devised the distinct six-part sound, scans the drug scene and other manifest modern evils and concludes, "We are truly living in the last days before Christ comes. Because of that, we are more intense in showing people they need not be subject to this world...
...Chambre Syndicale, which sponsors the twice-yearly ready-to-wear fashion shows held in the jammed courtyard of the Louvre. "The Italians have come because they've realized they can't do without us. The Milan ready-to-wear draws far fewer journalists than the shows in Paris. Need I say more...