Word: schoolyard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...serious menace to the general population. It surely is, if only because not enough is yet known about precisely how the syndrome is transmitted. Many ways in which AIDS might be transmitted can be hypothesized and not disproved. For example, suppose a child who had AIDS got into a schoolyard fight with one who did not, and they cut each other enough to bleed profusely. The uninfected child might get AIDS only if blood from the AIDS victim entered his body through a cut, which is unlikely but not impossible. As an extra precaution, some health authorities recommend that AIDS...
...brother had any money. Police officials say that witnesses overheard the brothers planning a spur-of-the- moment robbery. An autopsy later showed traces of marijuana in Edmund's blood, leading some to wonder whether his judgment that night was impaired. It was only a short hike from the schoolyard to the park. Edmund and Jonah were both over 6 ft. tall. If they were looking for an easy mark, the 5-ft. 9-in. Van Houten, who was dressed casually in jeans and a sweatshirt, must have looked the part. Whatever it was that brought Edmund Perry...
...soon they were on their way back to a schoolyard in an Amal-controlled neighborhood in Beirut. Waiting for them were at least ten Red Cross vehicles that would take them to Damascus, where a U.S. Air Force C-141 StarLifter transport was ready to fly them to West Germany and freedom after 17 days of the televised Terrorist Suspense Spectacular...
Confirmation of the rumor that four Americans had been kept apart from the other hostages took place in a dramatic on-camera television scene that was carried to the U.S. by satellite. It happened on Saturday morning in the schoolyard near the Beirut airport, where the hostages and their luggage were assembled for what was expected to be an imminent trip to Damascus. It looked like a rather shaggy adult-education class being called to order, except for the gun-toting Amal guards watching from rooftops. In his now familiar crisp tones, Allyn Conwell called out the names...
...toughest competitor in the schoolyard is likely to be the biggest, IBM. Two years after introducing its first personal computer, the company has surpassed Apple, Tandy and Commodore in the business market. But thus far IBM's progress in educational sales has been far less spectacular. In primary and secondary schools, Apple still has nearly 50% of the business, compared with...