Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...syringe and needle in exchange, no name is given, no questions are asked. This is the start of the nation's first state- approved program for providing addicts with clean needles in the hope of curtailing the spread of AIDS. Under the two-year pilot project, an addict can swap a used needle for a new one, supplied by the nonprofit Life Foundation, up to five times a day, five days a week...
...Israeli border settlements. Some were arrested by the SLA security apparatus for interrogation. None have ever been charged or tried. Some will be released if their interrogators decide they are innocent. But for most, the only chance to get out will come when someone makes a deal to swap them for Israeli and SLA soldiers -- and probably some of the Western hostages held by Hizballah. And Hizballah is not considered likely to free the remaining hostages in Beirut until the gates of El Khiam swing open. There is no sign of a break in the impasse...
...observed misery and hypocrisy have been his comic subjects all along. The funniest scene depicts desperate attempts at suicide by a deranged housewife, brilliantly played by Jennifer Wiltsie, that are cheerily misunderstood by a passel of busybody "friends." Body Language posits a scientific mishap that leads to a body swap between two women, an ascetic fitness fanatic over whom men drool and a hedonistic slob whom men mock and abuse. It could be a feminist diatribe, but Ayckbourn never lets dialectic overwhelm compassion...
...more than ten years Presidents have failed to sort it out. Jimmy Carter was driven from office by the hostage tragedy, and Ronald Reagan's futile attempt to swap arms for hostages blighted his presidency. Bush has steadily followed the recommendation of his own 1985 task force not to negotiate with terrorists and to cut out the hoopla, the yellow ribbons and prayer vigils, events that did raise the worth of the hostages...
...financial giant even talked with Sanford Weill, the former head of Shearson who sold the brokerage to American Express in 1981. Finally, with no buyers in sight, Chief Executive James Robinson announced last week that American Express would purchase the rest of Shearson from shareholders in a stock-swap deal valued at $350 million. The parent company plans to cut its losses by rapidly shrinking its subsidiary. Last week it began laying off 2,000 of Shearson's 35,500 employees...