Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seemingly, this should make students feel that UHS is a very qualified, safe place to go for health care. And some students are very satisfied with UHS. Some claim that they receive as good care there as they do from their own doctor at home...
...contras prove that they are a force that can seriously threaten the Sandinistas, attitudes may shift. "At cockfights in Nicaragua, most people won't make a bet until one cock is already bleeding and close to losing the fight," says a Western diplomat. "Nicaraguans want to be on the safe side with the winner. In this war, the people will join in only when the final outcome is absolutely clear to everybody." In the meantime, most will endure, sacrifice and fence-sit as best they...
...Thomas, 18. (He is from Sunnyvale, she from San Jose.) In the freestyle final, Boitano zoomed from fourth place to first on the strength of a bravura jitterbugging performance to Gershwin and the blues. Thomas "just got inspired" after watching Boitano, and the next night, instead of playing it safe to protect a slight lead, she came on strong to a combination of Duke Ellington and ballet music in a program that contained four triple jumps, including a tricky triple-double toe-loop combination. "I don't believe it," said a tearful Thomas, who is the first black world champion...
...House to protect the wily former President. Last week Washington attempted to strike an artful balance between the competing interests. While the Justice Department intervened in federal court to help secure release of the documents, the State Department was busy trying, unsuccessfully as it turned out, to negotiate a safe haven in Panama for Marcos, who was reportedly fearful of being subpoenaed for congressional hearings or brought to trial in U.S. courts...
...thrown him to the wolves." Last week he asked the State Department to help him find a more suitable haven. Spain, his first choice, rejected him for internal political reasons. Then, late in the week, Panamanian President Eric Arturo Delvalle also refused to take the homeless leader, after his safe haven there seemed virtually guaranteed. Delvalle apparently made the decision in response to critics who said the issue was a "banana peel" that could jeopardize the stability of Panama. The unexpected move leaves the Reagan Administration in an increasingly uncomfortable position. Said one weary State Department official: "It looks like...