Word: smear
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more troubling are indications that some doctors and hospitals may be lax in protecting patients against exposure to the AIDS virus. Chicago's Illinois Masonic Medical Center has temporarily closed its adult clinic following two alarming incidents. In April a physician taking a Pap smear from a woman unwittingly used a swab that had previously been used to take a culture from an HIV-positive patient. The doctor thought the testing kit, which had been left out unlabeled on a table in the hallway, had been prepared for his use. Just weeks later, two toddlers who had accompanied a woman...
Second, drop the radical smear campaigns aginst Christianity and stop annoyingly disruptive stunts like blocking traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge. Angry motorists can become angry voters...
...hand man at the RNC wrote a memorandum titled "Tom Foley Out of the Liberal Closet," likening the politics of the house speaker to Rep. Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Mass.), who is openly gay. Atwater's aide strongly implied in the memo that Foley is gay, hoping to smear Foley because of his alleged sexual orientation. It's hard to believe that Atwater would not have known about the memo. He probably had a hand in creating...
...Civil Rights Act. So what's holding up Ted Kennedy from introducing a new version of the bill this year? The problem: a mini-rebellion by at least half a dozen first-term Senators who are up for re-election and terrified that Republican challengers will smear them for supporting "racial quotas." Chuck Robb of Virginia, chairman of the Democratic campaign committee, confirms that he is "working with several people for a bill that can get signed." Translation: the vulnerable legislators are agitating for a compromise bill that's closer to the White House version than the measure endorsed...
...leaner, meaner but not better. In fact, it is worse because the disgusting parts are easier to find. No plot or characterization has been inserted to mar the originality of the work's hostile infantilism. American Psycho still poses the challenging question: How much feces can a young writer smear on the wall before Mommy and Daddy really get angry...