Word: personics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, not every rent-controlled apartment is occupied by a non-needy person. But the system definitely favors them, and several studies of New York tenants show that those who live in rent-controlled apartments have, on average, higher incomes than those...
...most powerful candidate--as an intellectual and as a person who could bring an interesting point of view to the department," said Fine Arts Chair Neil Levine of Bryson. "He's a fabulous teacher, a dynamic person, an engaging speaker...
Despite the substantial costs (average lifetime care for a person with AIDS: about $83,000), a fifth of those infected with the AIDS virus have no insurance at all. Increasingly, these people are flooding into overburdened public hospitals, raising fears of bankruptcies. In August the National Public Health and Hospital Institute reported that in 1987 only 5% of the nation's hospitals, most of them in inner cities, were treating 50% of the country's AIDS patients. Bellevue Hospital Center, which has one of the biggest emergency rooms in New York City, is overwhelmed to the point that care...
...executive director of Houston's Foundation for Interfaith Research and Ministry. Additionally, society's sense of financial obligation -- not to mention its compassion -- has been diminished by a blame-the-victim syndrome. "I think that there is a tendency to discount a situation if one feels that an infected person's condition could have been avoided," says Dr. Kathleen Nolan of the Hastings Center in Briarcliff, N.Y. Alluding to the disease's long incubation period -- frequently ten years or more -- she adds that "the vast majority of individuals who are seropositive or who have AIDS had never heard...
...Cohn writes that "[t]he survival of the Jews in America and the modern world depends on the ability to live in a secular society that bears little resemblance to a kosher deli." The ability to live in a secular society is a requirement for the survival of any person. For Jews to survive, however, that is not the only requirement...