Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Institutes of Heath issued a formal request for a proposal, tactfully giving it the bland title "Social and Behavioral Aspects of Fertility Related Behavior" in an attempt to slip under the radar of right- wing politicians. But the euphemism fooled no one - least of all Jesse Helms. In the Reagan and Bush era, any government funding for sex research was suspect, and the Senator from North Carolina was soon lobbying to have the project killed. The Chicago team redesigned the study several times to assuage conservative critics, dropping the questions about masturbation and agreeing to curtail the interview once...
...Donald Schulz, a Caribbean expert at the Army War College, writes, "We can train and otherwise try to professionalize the Haitian military and police, but as long as the dominant culture places a premium on authoritarianism, dishonesty and the use of force, the new military and police will eventually slip back into the patterns...
...Raoul Cedras and Brig. Gen.Philippe Biamby, the remaining two of the triumvirate that ruled Haiti sincethey led a coup in 1991, have resigned and plan to slip into well-heeled exile.Cedras announced he was stepping down five days before the U.S.-imposeddeadline, but screams from hundreds of pro-democracy Haitians drowned out hisfarewell speech from a podium at army headquarters in downtown Port-au-Prince."I have decided to leave our country so my presence will not be a motive tocreate terror," he explained. He left with a salute, turning the army over tohis No. 2, Maj. Gen. Jean-Claude...
...Simpson's reeling defense suffered another one-two punch: Judge Lance Ito today rejected its motion to throw out evidence taken from Simpson's Ford Bronco during police searches. The Bronco is a virtual treasure trove for the prosecution: Police found bloodstains on its door and interior, an order slip for two knives, a shovel that investigators believe may have been used to bury evidence, and golf shoes they want to compare with shoe prints at the murder scene...
...quite 18. Back then, in December 1986, Villasor was still new to Alexandria, Virginia, up from Florida, just out of high school, not quite knowing what to do with her life. Villasor, Aramony would later say, "comes from a poverty background. I don't want her to slip back into it." And, according to a federal grand jury, he went out of his way to make certain she didn't. Last week details emerged about how Aramony, the former president of United Way of America, allegedly supported his then teenage mistress with funds siphoned through a spin-off company from...