Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...healthy members and friends of an AIDS fund-raising group last week, merely because of their connection with AIDS patients. "Here in Chicago, AIDS is still seen as a gay issue," one group member said. "I see a lot of hysteria." In California, a group calling itself PANIC (Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee) has placed a proposition on the November ballot giving health officials the right to quarantine all AIDS patients and carriers of the virus. Though unlikely to pass, it has stirred the most voter emotion...
...academic areas, including science, literature and the arts and foreign cultures, from which undergraduates must select 25% of their baccalaureate studies. Rosovsky believes the core assures common immersion in great currents of world knowledge and "develops a student's powers of reasoning and analysis." Moreover, it is designed to prevent scattershot course selection or its opposite, one-dimensional curricula including little but a student's major...
While professors yesterday praised President Derek C. Bok's convocation address as an apt statement of the role universities should play in society, they were doubtful of the University's ability to prevent outside demands from competing with scholars' academic pursuits...
Yamani urged all oil-producing nations to prevent constant fluctuations in world oil prices by collectively establishing a price structure based on the long-term equilibrium between supply and demand...
...virus can fuse itself to the cell, gain entry and thereby cause trouble," Wiley said. His aim is to modify viruses to prevent the initial fusion, he explained, demonstrating with a 5-ft. molecular model...