Word: spread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While medical experts have found no evidence that AIDS can be spread by spitting, prosecutors claim that Richards nevertheless believed he could have infected the officers. Robert Weiss, the chief prosecutor, compared Richards to an assailant armed with a defective gun. Notes University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar: "If the person really believed he could transmit a deadly disease by spitting at someone, then one could make a case that he is liable for prosecution...
...bleak gray And finals are just a short four weeks away; The coffee's been flowing, the ashtray o'erflows And how it will end only the Senior Tutor knows. But it's time, tired readers; it's that time of year To close all the books, and spread some good cheer: Shut off the typewriter, sit back and relax As out come our presents, and down swings the axe. Your papers are due, your plane leaves at three, But first we'll reveal what lies under our tree. For before we depart for regions far hence, Our wishes...
Information gathered on AIDS seems to indicate that it can be spread only by sexual contact and the exchange of body fluids. Yet it is absurd to assume that carriers of the AIDS virus--many of whom do not realize that they are carriers, and some of whom are prostitutes--will unanimously refrain from having sex. The only feasible option we have right now is to identify AIDS carriers and take steps to isolate them. Proposals of this kind go against the grain of what society deems decent, and so provoke a good deal of hubbub. What people seem...
...people currently carry the virus, and some of them will develop the disease--but the virus will not be transmitted to anyone who does not already have it. Period. They are simple to implement, and all of them are essentially risk-free. Dr. Mark, observe: we can reduce the spread of the virus which causes AIDS not by 10 percent, not by 50 percent, but by a 100 percent, and we can do it now, without any recourse to a testing and quarantine program more like something out of Hitler's Germany than anything else. "Current public health measures...
...east Tennessee, which gained unwanted renown when Martin Luther King's killer James Earl Ray escaped in 1977, was last renovated 40 years ago. "Cottages" for youthful offenders, built at the village of Only during the 1970s, were converted to house vicious criminals, but soon became ungovernable warrens. Corruption spread. Former Governor Ray Blanton, now in jail for selling state liquor licenses, was accused of abusing his power of executive clemency in pardoning and paroling inmates, a scandal loosely dramatized in the current movie Marie...