Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some grievances have not changed: autocratic management, antiquated equipment, too few controllers, too many planes. But the new union's leaders say they do not intend to repeat PATCO's mistakes. In particular, they will not demand the right to strike...
...generosity, grace, humor, kindness, love, sanity, scholarship. It is, say religious scholars, more of a method than a religion. The relationship between teacher and student is similar to that between psychiatrist and patient, goes one definition. There has to be full trust, otherwise nothing is accomplished. "It's a particular type of religious devotion," says a former student of Rinpoche's, "where you surrender all your critical faculties to a guru." Whatever it is, initiates have a tendency to tell uninitiates, it is inexplicable unless one is an initiate. This is when Frank Sinatra used to come in with...
From past experience with infectious diseases, many health officials believe the marriage test in particular will not effectively reach the high-risk groups -- homosexual and bisexual men and intravenous drug abusers, who collectively make up 91% of U.S. AIDS cases. Indeed, researchers at the AIDS conference presented evidence of a continuing rise in the number of new infections among IV drug users in the U.S., most of them black or Hispanic, who are spreading the virus to the heterosexual community...
...article on the surge of interest in birding included the observation by Paul Sykes that "the bird can also leave just before you get there." As all birders come to know, there is a corollary to this that says, "After sighting a particular species you have chased for years, three of them will perch on the hood of your car as you start for home...
...roughhewn, 6-ft. 5-in. physique, Wilson exudes a sense of physical power despite his confinement. He is eager to talk about what he claims were his professional and commercial ties with several of the individuals implicated in the sub-rosa schemes run by Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. In particular, Wilson mentions retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord and former high-level CIA Officials Thomas G. Clines and Theodore G. Shackley. All of them, he says (and has said previously to prosecutors who did not believe him), were partners of his in deals carried out by Eatsco (for Egyptian...