Word: signs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...treats AIDS patients, has suggested that the city help combat the spread of the disease by requiring hotels and motels to equip each guest room with safe-sex information kits, including condoms. The kits would also be distributed at some local massage parlors and saunas. "There could be a sign with each kit saying, THE BIBLE MAY SAVE YOUR SOUL, BUT THIS WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE," says Traiman. Some innkeepers fear that guests might find the kits offensive. Elie Cukierman, owner of the venerable Shattuck Hotel, suggests an alternative: a sign in each room stating that condoms are available free...
...walking through Harvard Square two nights ago when a man with a sign informed me that fascism had come to America. Fearing the worst--that, as his sign proclaimed, Nazism had taken root in our country--I went over to him and took the reading material he was handing to passersby...
...choicers like the man with the sign should admit that just because some people want to outlaw abortion, that does not automatically mean they have something against women or that they are fascist. If they want to make a strong case for choice, they ought to point to rape and the sex education problem. Accusations such as this author's only cloud the debate on abortion and make finding workable solutions to this divisive issue that much more difficult...
...Paine, acting administrator of NASA in 1968: "We are at the onset of a program of space flights that will extend through many generations." Since then, there have been other triumphs and other disasters. Yet the wonder of that lunar vista has remained a lure and an accomplishment, a sign that amid riot, war and discontent, something was still worth striving...
Massie says the B-School "has gone from really ignoring ethics or not putting it on center stage to really taking the lead. You're starting to get people who think ethics is being talked about too much--that's a good sign...