Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undercover agents recorded their information not just in the hurlyburly of the pits but on social occasions as well. Two feds working the Board of Trade solicited stories about illegal trades by throwing lavish parties in their high-rise apartments and by joining the posh East Bank Club, a gym popular with commodities brokers. One agent who called himself Richard Carlson claimed that he specialized in soybean contracts and was a native New Yorker; the other, who called himself Michael McLoughlin, said he worked the Treasury- bond pit and was from Florida. "Both were nice guys, pleasant, friendly," recalls...
Ronald Harmon Brown developed his social skills at a most unlikely place: the once famous Theresa Hotel on 125th Street in Harlem, where he grew up. His father was the manager, a celebrated fixture in the community. His mother was socially prominent. Ron was their only child. The hotel was alive with entertainers, politicians, doctors, lawyers and sports heroes, black and white...
Like many skilled writers, she sacrifices balance for effects. This is acceptable, even necessary, in fiction. But in a memoir whose purpose is to expose one's own family in the glare of a social ideology, the practice seems simplistic and self-serving. There is, for example, her use of the familiar tale about the founding of the Bingham fortune. Grandfather Robert, "the Judge," bought into Louisville publishing with money from the estate of Mary Lily Flagler, his second wife. The Judge was rumored to have killed Mary Lily, but there was never any evidence that would support a criminal...
...STDs cannot be dismissed as a controllable collection of "social diseases." The open genital sores that many STDs cause can be gateways for the AIDS virus. If left untreated, STDs can cause severe consequences, including heart damage and birth defects. Some 7,000 STD-related deaths occur each year in the U.S., many of them in infants born to infected mothers...
...role in building Libya's suspected chemical-weapons plant at Rabta. Members shouted angry questions at a government spokesman, to the visible discomfort of a dour and silent Chancellor Helmut Kohl. "Once again our history has caught up with us," said Norbert Gansel, arms-control spokesman for the opposition Social Democratic Party, referring to the country's Nazi heritage. "Once again the evil, blinkered German is there in the cartoons and the editorials, and the federal government has made an ugly contribution...