Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nervous. Transfusions have saved countless lives, but they have sometimes transmitted serious blood-borne diseases, including AIDS. While public health officials point out that careful testing has all but eradicated the AIDS virus from the blood supply, they have not been able to claim that transfusions are perfectly safe. Reason: about 5% of patients who receive transfusions are exposed to a virus that can cause a potentially deadly liver infection called non-A, non-B hepatitis...
...uneasy middle ground is precisely the territory that many Americans occupy. Pollsters commonly find that about 40% of the public believe abortion should be available for any reason a woman may choose. A slightly higher percentage typically believe it should be available only in cases of rape, incest or to protect the health of the mother. But a large majority, usually around 70%, regularly say the decision to have an abortion should be left to the woman...
...into baby carriages and gardeners snipping the gardenias is drowned out by earthmoving, sawing, hammering, and the cursing of drivers trying to park beside a line of lunch wagons, cement mixers and Porta Pottis. To date, hundreds of older homes in the area have been destroyed for the simple reason that the original "dungalows" were worth so much less than the land underneath them. Palatial homes whose scale is limited only by the owners' taste and imagination are rising in their place. Typically, the latter far exceeds the former...
Both men have good reason to stay the course. Two weeks before the encounter, representatives of the government and Solidarity had signed an accord that paved the way for the legalization of the previously outlawed trade union and moved the country one step closer to what may become Eastern Europe's first multiparty system. Last week Solidarity backed a preliminary slate of twelve candidates, including a film idol, a schoolteacher and a former political prisoner, to run in the parliamentary elections scheduled for June. If successful, Poland's experiment could set an example to be followed by other reform-minded...
...another piece of one's childhood is consigned to oblivion. The reason those hot dogs linger so deliciously in the memory is not the hot dogs themselves, actually, but the toasted buns they came in, and the yellow pseudobuttery glop that reduced the toasted buns to toasted mush, and the elongated white cardboard containers that held the toasted mush so that one could make a game of trying to gnaw on the hot-dog mush without getting one's hands and face entirely covered with the dripping glop -- a game that, to one's parents' despair, one invariably lost...