Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent drizzly morning, a lot of people expressed similar sentiments. "God bless you," a woman said in a note she dropped into the musician's guitar case, along with a dollar. "Lovely," said others. "Just beautiful." At the end of the day, the guitarist pockets between $40 and $60, his normal take. Then he returns to the fleabag he calls home, takes up his duties as president of the tenants' association and works for better housing conditions. "This is America, isn't it? People don't have to live in squalor...
After that ego-deflating lunch, the tumult of the convention was a relief. As Madison took his front-row seat with the Virginia delegation, a page handed him a hastily scrawled note from Roger Sherman of Connecticut: "We need to talk." This could be the break in the deadlock that Madison was hoping for; Sherman was the last of the old-time New England bosses. But getting through the clogged aisles to the Connecticut delegation on the other side of Independence Hall was a nightmare. A live-TV crew dogged Madison's every step as Reporter Don Samuelson shouted questions...
...constitutional experts as Supreme Court Justices Harry Blackmun, Sandra Day O'Connor and William Brennan. ABC's entertainment division is preparing a one-hour tribute titled The Splendiferous Wham-Bam Constitution Special that will feature a number of stars, including Michael J. Fox and Barbra Streisand. On a serious note, both the ABC and NBC news divisions will present specials on differing interpretations of the Constitution...
...Constitution. In Philadelphia there are endless parties, picnics and explications. The pageantry is perfectly American. Yet the nation may have grown a little weary of such celebrations. The skies of the '80s have been filled with red, white and blue balloons. In the waning Reagan years, the note of national self-congratulation sounds hollow...
...emerging U.S. policy -- which so far requires AIDS tests of military and foreign service personnel, federal prisoners and immigrants seeking residency -- contend that compulsory screening violates good health tactics as well as privacy rights because it leads people to evade help and sends the disease underground. They note that despite assurances of confidentiality, such promises are regularly breached. Says June Osborn, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan: "Advertent or accidental public disclosure of positive tests has led to loss of insurance, marriage, family ties and even domicile -- in short, everything necessary for life...