Word: starks
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...fervor with which the elderly lobby to protect their benefits seems incongruous -- and unforgivably selfish -- to younger people who see only the silvery life-style of the old rich. But the AARP campaign is born of stark realities: the persistence of nasty pockets of poverty among the aged, the threat of catastrophic illness that faces every old man and woman and, above all, the prospect of cutbacks in benefits as Washington struggles to balance its budget...
...doctor's unflinching account, published anonymously in the Jan. 8 Journal of the American Medical Association, was the first such confession ever to appear in a U.S. medical journal. With stark candor and dramatic detail, it spotlighted one of U.S. medicine's most controversial issues: the extent to which American doctors commit mercy killings. The report has prompted a storm of protest and a flurry of letters to J.A.M.A., most of which were from physicians who condemned the resident's behavior as both illegal and unethical. New York City Mayor Edward Koch was so horrified by the J.A.M.A. account that...
However, unjust restrictions on minority admissions do exist at Harvard and at universities nationwide. The stark difference between the 13.3 percent acceptance rate of Asian students and the 17.0 percent rate of their white peers makes this fact undeniably clear. To understand why, examine closely the factors the Admissions Office statement gave for the lower Asian-American rate: a relative absence of legacy parents and a slight deficiency in high school extracurricular activity...
...wars start? The thousands of books and articles on the Widener shelves are a stark testament to the frustrations of generations of scholars working away at the origins of this or that...
...most astonishing revelation of the transcripts is the sharp contradiction between the hard historical evidence and the statements of Kennedy's former advisers. While a certain allowance must be made for the failings of memory, these disparities are too stark and too shockingly recurrent to be explained away. The good men of Camelot have deliberately altered the public record of the Crisis to create an image of President Kennedy as a cool, tough leader who saved the Free World from the encroachments of communism--instead of a dovish Kennedy who sought the easiest way to resolve the Crisis...