Word: suppress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RESPONSIBLE EDITORS, therefore, must suppress their Pavlovian impulses long enough to ask some serious questions: Is the issue they are presented inherently newsworthy? What is the credibility and good faith of the source? Do his or her charges deserve a front-page lead story, or will a blurb on the inside suffice? Does a controversy actually exist, or are they being manipulated into precipitating...
...June by $100 million in federal funds, Government and industry scientists are also scrambling to develop therapies to help rebuild immune systems devastated by the AIDS attack. "The real goal," says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), should be "to simultaneously suppress the virus and build up the immune response in the patient." Other researchers are concentrating on preventing the disease, experimenting with vaccines designed to protect healthy people from infection by the virus...
...English author has charged that Harvard is attempting to suppress the publication of his biography of a famous art connoisseur while the Harvard University Press publishes its own officially sanctioned biography...
...most impressive of these semichanges is the alteration of a first name to an initial. This is often thought to be a means of suppressing some supposedly sissified first name. (Would Parkinson's law ever have been discovered if C. Northcote Parkinson had remained Cyril N. Parkinson?) More commonly, such changes suppress a plain name. (Could Bill Harriman have served Presidents as grandly as W. Averell Harriman did? Would the FBI have achieved the same renown under Jack Hoover as it did under J. Edgar Hoover...
...than war is caused by Rambo." But many agree with the commission that porn is linked to sexual assault. NOW President Eleanor Smeal says that feminist work with rape victims and battered wives points up "the influence of violent pornography firsthand." But, she adds, "we don't want to suppress sexually explicit material that is not harmful or violent." The problem, similar to the one faced by the Meese Commission, is sorting out what is and is not damaging. Says Deborah Chalfie, a Washington attorney active in Feminists Against Pornography: "I still have problems with defining what we are trying...