Word: starks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...efforts to save Bill Schroeder are in stark contrast to a story she reported last spring on families whose religious beliefs led them to refuse medical care for their dying children. To follow every step of Schroeder's progress, Dolan, along with TIME'S Teresa Barker, has been almost as closely tethered to the Humana press center as the patient is to the machinery that powers his artificial heart. During her long reporting vigil, she has found herself frequently checking her own vital signs. "After six days of nonstop reporting," says she, "most of the journalists covering...
...Soviet cheating buttress their broader case that arms control, at least as practiced traditionally, is not in the national interest. Moderates, centered at the State Department, are inclined to a more equivocal-and, they believe, a more subtle and accurate-reading of the Soviet record. They tend to avoid stark references to violations and talk instead about "questionable activities." The State Department, according to one of its officials, "has been seeking a report that raises tough questions without overstating the answers...
...with the names of the 58,022 Americans who died or were declared missing in the Southeast Asian war, was the result of a five-year fund-raising drive led by Jan Scruggs, an ex-infantry corporal who founded the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. But the wall's stark, understated design displeased many veterans. As a result, the veterans' organization decided to install a more traditional artwork near by. The new statue, 100 ft. from the wall, suggests soldiers scanning the granite wall for the names of fallen comrades...
...difficulty of arranging a discreet tryst remains a powerful weapon on the side of the angels. Indeed, Falling in Love shows an extramarital affair to be the neutron bomb of interpersonal relations, capable of wiping out all intelligent life, leaving only the bare generic conventions of romantic fiction standing stark against...
...election concerned the Senate only nominally. Both sides cast the race as a stark moral referendum. Helms called his right-wing philosophy "the cause of a Christian nation." Hunt described the race as "a historic chance to say what kind of people we are" and spoke darkly of the "radical right wing" that a Helms triumph would encourage to "take over this country." As Hunt politicked Tuesday night at a Raleigh polling place, he had a final, frustrating, emblematic campaign encounter. A young woman declined to shake his hand. "I'm sorry," she said...