Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...infection. While the disease was erroneously thought to be communicable by non-sexual means as well as through intercourse, progressive reformers focused their attacks on foreign prostitutes in the cities and on immorality in all classes. Bachelor parties, once the site of last minute merry-making, became the object of criticism and fear and muckrakers took every opportunity to make the venereal problem "a subject of gossip...
...certainly never occurred to those of us who thought up the Harvard College Forum that anyone would object to something as innocuous as a magazine for undergraduate scholarship. But Harry M Browne (letter to the Editors April 25) has taken issue, less with the content than with the tone of our project. So to set his mind at ease, I'll respond to three of his broader concerns...
...destroy after receiving the form from Customs. On the other hand, U.S. Customs lies in wait at the other end. Returning travelers can bring in $400 worth of merchandise free, but they are charged 10% for the next $1,000, and a variety of rates, depending on the object, for everything over that...
...groups of insurgents hit more than 20 small towns, burning government buildings and public records. In response, the Salvadoran government, with the help of U.S. military advisers, has been rejuvenating the country's civil defense network. One of the rebels' publicly declared goals is to undermine that effort; the object of the assault on Santa Cruz Loma was the village's still poorly trained and equipped 16-man civil defense unit. "We denounce the killer regime of (President Jose Napoleon) Duarte," read leaflets left on some of the corpses. "It is trying to use campesinos in paramilitary organizations to give...
...debate of the meek or mild, and in recent weeks the opposing voices have grown increasingly strident. "I think corporate raids are an outrage and a bloody scandal," says Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO. "The object is for somebody to make a killing, pure and simple, and I see no virtue in it at all." Counters Minneapolis Investor Irwin Jacobs, who has made runs at targets as varied as ITT and Disney Productions: "We're really not a bunch of big, bad wolves. Mergers and acquisitions have created a great deal of value...