Word: roof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Omuga had other things on her mind. Since testing positive for HIV in 1992, the Kenyan mother of four has lost both her job as a midwife and her home. Today she barely earns enough to keep her children alive and cover her $12 monthly rent on a tin-roof shack in one of Nairobi's most fetid slums. Treating her illness is low on her list of priorities. In a good week, when she gets paid to give talks about AIDS to employees of the local railway company, she manages to scrimp enough to buy a palliative...
...paranoia and memory loss were not then recognized as symptoms of dementia. He was surprisingly granted a luxurious room in a Manhattan hospital, with a uniformed guard at the door; we later discovered that the staff was being extra cautious because another AIDS patient had jumped from the roof a day earlier. All visitors were required to wear surgical masks, but almost no one did; we didn't want Eric's last moments to be accompanied by a circle of fearful Michael Jacksons...
What issue could bring eight of the biggest-selling female writers in the U.S. together under one roof? What subject is so vital that BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD and TAMA JANOWITZ both want to hold forth on it? The future of Diana, Princess of Wales, naturally. Romance Classics, a new TV channel, gathered (clockwise from top left) JACKIE COLLINS, Bradford, ERICA JONG, JOAN RIVERS, NANCY FRIDAY, Janowitz, OLIVIA GOLDSMITH and RONA JAFFE to plot a sequel to the sensational epic that has been Diana's first marriage. Suggestions included Diana's having her own talk show ("A listening show," said Goldsmith...
...second floor overlooks the new copper roof of the rotunda, shining in the light of the setting...
...surrounding Loewen homes and adds, "The Loewen Group hasn't hurt us in the least." Says a former Loewen executive, interviewed on condition of anonymity: "The best thing that can happen to a local funeral home is that Loewen buys the competition, because the prices will go through the roof...