Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government may settle the issue with a national AIDS survey, which began last week in Dallas. The residents of 3,400 households were sent letters asking them to take anonymous AIDS tests and answer questions about their sexual practices and drug use. Some AIDS groups protested, charging that the money used for the survey could be better spent on treatment and the search for a cure...
Although Ennis was initially charged with second-degree murder, the shooting "was clearly an accident," said assistant district attorney Perry Newman. Ennis was joking when he pointed the shotgun at his cousin, and his finger apparently bumped the trigger. Like more than 60 other shooting victims in TIME's survey, Tawanah Jean Griggs was the victim not of a crime but of a recklessly casual attitude about guns...
...council's statements, though not always sweeping or conclusive (and never unanimous), did precisely what a representative body should do: survey, distill and forcefully present what students feel...
...survey by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force of 2000 respondents found that 40 percent of gay and lesbian people had been threatened with violence and 90 percent had experienced some kind of victimization because of their sexual orientation. The task force's 1987 report found that the number of cases of violence and intimidation against gay people rose 300 percent since...
...WESTERN WORLD (PBS, debuting Oct. 2, 9 p.m. on most stations). British historian Michael Wood is host for this coffee-table survey of the great works, with a stress on their cultural and historical context...