Word: sexuality
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Watkins called discrimination the "foremost obstacle to progress" in combatting AIDS. "People simply will not come forward to be tested or will not supply names of sexual contacts for notification," he said, "if they feel they will lose their jobs and homes based on an HIV-positive test." The chairman's recommendation: that the President issue an Executive Order extending federal antidiscrimination laws already on the books to include those infected with the AIDS virus. In Congress, conservative lawmakers, who vigorously oppose steps that would confer special rights on homosexuals, the group most directly affected by AIDS, promptly voiced their...
...confidentiality is the major bulwark against that fear," the report asserts. However, it also establishes clear exceptions to the rule: namely, when there is a need to protect those "who may unknowingly be in immediate danger of being exposed" to the AIDS virus. Among them are victims of sexual assaults, health-care workers who are accidentally exposed and those who may be treating infected individuals...
...society upright. (A run-on sentence, its phrases piling up without division, is as unsightly as a sink piled high with dirty dishes.) Small wonder, then, that punctuation was one of the first proprieties of the Victorian age, the age of the corset, that the modernists threw off: the sexual revolution might be said to have begun when Joyce's Molly Bloom spilled out all her private thoughts in 36 pages of unbridled, almost unperioded and officially censored prose; and another rebellion was surely marked when E.E. Cummings first felt free to commit "God" to the lower case...
Walters and her attorney said they think the latest development shows that Garrity might understand the definition of sexual discrimination which they are using...
...feel that the jury understood it, and with Judge Garrity's most recent decision that he's beginning to understand it too," said Walters, who has said throughout the trial that her goal throughout the proceedings has been to make people understand that sexual discrimination does not have to be sexual in nature...