Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couple did not have a specialist confirm the diagnosis until late 1986, did not inquire whether the disease affected her ability to bear a healthy child, and did not seek to adopt a child. William Stern wanted a genetic link. Yet if Sorkow is to be believed, these facts reveal nothing about the Sterns' fitness to be parents...
Swaggart, in Los Angeles last week to launch a revival meeting, quickly challenged Grutman to reveal any dirty linen the lawyer might have "to the whole world." Grutman produced an article in Spin magazine reporting former employees' sometimes vague accusations that Swaggart had spent lavish sums on his family and had used donations for causes other than their original purposes...
...groups, and encourages the creation of special programs for black and Hispanic youth, who are considered to be particularly at risk. In fiscal 1987 the Government will spend $79.5 million on AIDS education, more than double last year's outlay. But as last week's controversial and hesitant recommendations reveal, the Federal Government has yet to fashion a coherent response to an increasingly divisive public health crisis...
...black-clad, thousand-year-old Emperor (Swiss Tenor Hugues Cuenod, making his company debut at 84). For the first time the Met stage, which has swallowed whole such formidable productions as Nathaniel Merrill's 1966 Die Frau ohne Schatten, looks cramped. As is its custom, the Met declines to reveal the spectacle's cost, but best guesses run to about $1.5 million...
Realizing that Fragile X is more common than previously believed, doctors have begun to recommend that all children with unexplained cases of mental retardation be tested for the syndrome. At the very least, they say, such examination will reveal if the child's condition is hereditary and will enable parents to evaluate the risk of having another affected child. Fragile X can also be diagnosed prenatally by means of amniocentesis. But doctors cannot yet determine whether the fetus will be affected or simply be a carrier...