Word: quarterly
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...depends on providing treatment for the nation's often neglected, mostly minority intravenous drug users. Although the rate of new AIDS infection among homosexuals has plummeted in recent years, the virus is spreading virtually unchecked among the 1.2 million addicts. Intravenous drug users now constitute a quarter of all AIDS patients in the U.S. Watkins noted that they are also responsible for 70% of heterosexually transmitted cases and AIDS cases among newborns. Yet only 12% currently receive help at treatment centers, where waiting lists run as long as six months. Says Watkins: "It is this group that poses the greatest...
...Predictions say that by 1991 a quarter of amillion people who are currently infected willhave gotten AIDS," he said. "That is a big numberwhen it is looked at from the point of view of thenumber of years of potentially productive lifelost...
What fools these mortals be when they try to tinker with the Democratic Party's natural affinity for chaos. Instead of providing clarity, the split verdicts from Iowa and New Hampshire have left four strong Democrats in the race, each of whom can aspire to roughly one-quarter of the March 8 delegate harvest. Michael Dukakis, who scored a firm but not flashy 36% New Hampshire victory, heads into the unfamiliar terrain of Dixie as the leading white liberal in the race. Jesse Jackson, of course, should corral almost all the black vote. By finishing second in New Hampshire, with...
...Over and over, I talk with inheritors whose parents will not talk about money with them," says Consultant Levy. "It's treated like a subject in bad taste." When parents do talk, the instruction is likely to be minimal. Tracy Gary remembers one such childhood directive. "This is a quarter," her mother told her. "You have a lot of choices. You can donate it, save it, loan it to a friend...
...quarter of Nina Anderson, Jill Hutchinson, Quinn and Suhs opened the evening with a first in the 200-yd. freestyle relay. The crowd was hoping for a head-to-head rematch between Yale's Lisa O'Dell, Boston University's Sybil Smith and Suhs, the top three finishers in Thursday night's record-setting 50-yd. freestyle race...