Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus, I propose, and it is "the only feasible option we have right now," that we isolate journalists like Jeff Wise and protect the society at large form harmful editorials and irresponsible journalism. Wise should not mind, really. His article indicates he does not think much of the rights of individuals anyway. Peter Gadol...
Education on safer sex practices is another option--one which our government will not fund for fear of a public outcry about "pornography." Internment camps seeem to be more acceptable than talk about wearing a condom while having anal intercourse...
...spread only by sexual contact and the exchange of body fluids. Yet it is absurd to assume that carriers of the AIDS virus--many of whom do not realize that they are carriers, and some of whom are prostitutes--will unanimously refrain from having sex. The only feasible option we have right now is to identify AIDS carriers and take steps to isolate them. Proposals of this kind go against the grain of what society deems decent, and so provoke a good deal of hubbub. What people seem to have forgotten, though, is that AIDS victims are going...
...chairmen were wise to realize their party must not challenge President Reagan to a personality contest in '86. Glossing over the President's accomplishments, however, is not an option for the Democrats. If they ignore the last six years, the Democrats will prove that they have wavered in their commitment to their party's principles, and will turn any success they might have into little more than victories of one set of empty symbols over another...
...fears expressed toward the military option are either historically unsound or easily prevented. Merely rewriting the bill as it passes through Congress would be sufficient to ensure that the military option will remain fully voluntary. Further, the existence of the draft did not encourage any more U.S. adventurism in the '50s, than a lack of one has in the '80s. Finally, one of the central benefits of national service would be training and job-related skills experience for all American young people, and not just those who choose to enlist in the armed forces...