Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Newark airline has earned the nickname "People Distress." Its North Terminal center, once deservedly known as "the Pit," has improved over the years, but it still resembles a bus terminal at rush hour. A replacement facility is a year to 18 months away from completion. Horror stories have spread along the discount-fare grapevine of endemic baggage losses on People flights and of travelers stranded for hours in Newark, Denver or San Francisco. Chairman Burr protests that "we're as professional as any airline out there," but the stories have evidently hurt. One People way of fighting back...
Epidemiologist Warren Winkelstein of the University of California, Berkeley, offered some slight encouragement, suggesting that public education campaigns have slowed the spread of the infection. While the number of AIDS cases is still increasing among homosexual men in San Francisco, he said, the rate of new infections declined from an 18% increase each year between 1982 and 1984 to only about a 4% rise last year. Winkelstein attributes the drop to "safe sex" practices like using condoms. Similar declines have been recorded among gay men and intravenous drug users in Baltimore. Said Dr. Frank Polk of the Johns Hopkins School...
...Zaire: "Today we know that AIDS is almost everywhere in Africa, especially central Africa. The question is, Why does Africa seem to be such a hot spot?" No answer was forthcoming. In Africa, AIDS strikes men and women in nearly equal numbers and, Kapita said, seems to be primarily spread by heterosexual contact...
...other AIDS developments in the U.S. last week riled civil rights and homosexual groups. Despite the lack of any evidence that AIDS can be transmitted by casual contact, the Justice Department ruled that an employer who genuinely fears a spread of contagion can fire an AIDS victim without violating his federal civil rights. Snapped a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union: "The decision is nothing more than a pretext for discrimination." And in California, an initiative that could prohibit AIDS victims from attending or teaching school and working in restaurants was certified for placement on the November ballot...
...they make up so large and diverse a culinary discipline. Passions run high in defense of personal favorites and the proper way to make them: Should the bread that holds tuna salad be white or rye, plain or toasted? Is mayonnaise, Russian dressing, butter or mustard the correct spread for ham or turkey or roast beef? Does lettuce have any place at all in a sandwich of sliced meat, and if so, should the lettuce ever be iceberg? The Easterner regards the California predilection for mayonnaise on hamburgers as strictly an aberration, and to true New Yorkers who order street...