Word: representive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Say the words "older woman, younger man," and the images are at once vivid and seamy. Sagging socialites clinging to ambitious gigolos. Predatory Mrs. Robinsons seducing confused innocents. At best such autumn-summer pairings have been viewed as risque; at worst, as grotesque curiosities. Well, look again. The odd couple...
Officially, the AIDS epidemic began in the U.S. in 1981. Last week, however, researchers jolted the medical community with evidence that the disease may have made its first appearance in the U.S. almost 15 years earlier. In a front-page article in the Chicago Tribune, they related the extraordinary saga...
With outlays estimated at $217 billion this fiscal year, Social Security programs represent the largest expenditure in the federal budget after national defense. But when congressional leaders and Administration officials huddled last week to hunt for $23 billion in savings, Social Security was clearly untouchable. "Everything is on the table...
Why should one program get a free pass? Because, with its 38 million beneficiaries, Social Security is one of the Federal Government's most popular and effective programs. It has vastly improved the lives of America's elderly: a 65-year-old worker who retires this year could receive the...
For the past 18 years, Communist guerrillas of the New People's Army have made Philippine soldiers and policemen their main targets. Last week they turned their guns on Manila's main foreign backer: the U.S. In one well-coordinated 15-minute burst of violence, pistol-wielding assassins killed two...