Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Tower too went through, not long ago, the humiliation of having his private life made public. Yet that was because Tower, like Gary Hart and Dan Quayle before him, was in line for a position in which discretion is imperative; the Secretary of Defense's self-control is a matter of national welfare. All that is at stake in the Boggs case is dreams. We do not care whether our car mechanic, say, is a philanderer, so long as he does the job that he is paid to do; so too with our athletes. We pay our baseball players...
...musicians, and to adults who wish to be more innocent kids again. Tyson, moreover, appears in the ring for only a few minutes every few months, and Cabinet members work mostly behind closed doors; both are ultimately judged by professionals and peers. Boggs' skills, by contrast, are on public display up to 200 days a year, reviewed by millions of strongly partisan fans who are convinced of their own authority. In a curious way, then, Boggs is an even more public figure than the Secretary of Defense, and to that extent more vulnerable...
...could not issue the report because the scientific data were flawed and inconclusive. Subpoenaed by a House subcommittee that oversees some health budgets, the Surgeon General's report concluded that "abortion imposes a relatively low physical risk" for women. Acknowledging his strong "pro-life bias," Koop testified that any public-health problem associated with abortion is "minimal...
...safe option. Since then, pro-life forces have chipped away at the decision's medical premises. "These are extremely important conclusions," said Democratic Congressman Ted Weiss of New York, who organized the hearings. Conceded Koop: "It's very difficult to separate abortion the moral issue from abortion the public-health issue...
While the grape panic and apple scare merged in the public consciousness, they were actually quite different: the punctured-grapes incident was an example of Government action in the face of an intentional poisoning; Alar on apples was an instance of Government inaction following a scientific dispute over risk vs. benefit in the case of a particular chemical agent...